So I'm trying to teach my son the basics. Reading, writing, arithmetic.
And in doing so, naturally I find myself wanting to explain the origins of things. Also, he's five. Five year olds ask a lot of why questions. Why is his skin brown? Why do we count this way?
I think that a lot of things go back to major population movements and cultural shifts. The echoes of all the past epochs of human history.
So I've been craving a world map. Something big. Something more portable than a globe. Something more tactile than a book. Something he can touch and trace paths on.
At first I was thinking of making a quilt. But then I gave myself a reality check - a simple quilt takes months of work, and I don't even sew - and I looked around and found a world map "tapestry" print on Amazon - a large sheet of cheap cloth - upon which is printed a beautiful, abstract, watercolor world map.
So I bought it, and then I started researching exactly what I want to put on it.
The project has officially commenced.
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