Photo from a researcher on how string can be used during storytelling to illustrate different characters.
Inspiring here.

            kein schlafendes maedchen, sondern eine meerjungfrau

storytelling by moving wooden pieces

Craftswomen winding the cotton strings around their home-made loom for a Boucherouite carpet in South West Morocco.

food for thought: what education can learn from religions http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vXUvhfqcM_M#at=90

Inspiration:

A different approach to design: http://kulchi.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-secret-language-of-azilal-rugs.

Different places of learning: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/20/classroom-portraits-julian-germain/

A different way of telling a story: http://www.woaw.org.au/teachers/tell-an-aboriginal-story-activity/