Created by James Twyman

In 1998, while the ethnic war in Kosovo was at its height, James was invited to sing “The Peace Concert” at a refugee camp on the border of Kosovo and Macedonia. As James walked through that camp in Kosovo, he asked to be shown a way to make all those prayers tangible. It is one thing to pray and feel the power of our prayers, but wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could actually see, touch and feel them. That is how The Cloth of Many Colors was born, and since then it has taken on a life of its own. The Cloth of Many Colors Project has drawn the participation of hundreds of thousands of people from more than fifty countries and has toured in many different parts of the world. On September 19, 2000, the nearly mile long quilt was presented at the United National building in New York at a special ceremony. The next morning, it was literally wrapped around the base of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Two days later, it was presented during a concert at the U.S. Pentagon and then at the Prayer Vigil for the Earth.