We Are the

Weavers

An 8-week journey exploring some of the oldest practical magic on Earth — spinning, weaving, singing, and storytelling

28th January - 18th March
Wednesdays at 6:30pm GMT / 10:30am PST

In this time of great unraveling
when the world appears
to be coming undone at the seams,
we are called to join the reweaving
of a new and beautiful story on Earth.

Our Hands Remember...

how to gather what’s been scattered…

how to spin beauty from chaos…

how to weave new worlds into being…

how to make magic together.

Join our 8-week journey, where we will explore the ancient crafts of spinning and weaving, alongside the healing power of song and storytelling.

Whether you are approaching these handcrafts for the first time, or are already engaged in a long time practice, this container is an opportunity to awaken our hands & our voices, creating beauty & magic together.

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This Course Is For You If:

  • You feel called to learn the ancient arts of spinning and weaving and want to explore their magical and healing potential
  • You’re drawn to storytelling and curious of the rich cultural lore that’s woven into these practices
  • You love the idea of singing while crafting—whether you’re just beginning to explore your voice or are a seasoned singer
  • You’re inspired to embrace slower, more earth-based living and reconnect with your creativity in an intentional & nourishing way
  • You love the idea of joining a vibrant, worldwide community of spinners, weavers, and culture-makers—creating beauty together, thread by thread
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We Are the Weavers Gathering

24th - 30th May, 2026
NEAR Twisp, Washington, USA

Join the waitlist below to be the first to hear when we open registration for the in-person "We Are the Weavers" gathering – a magical week of spinning, weaving, singing & storytelling in community on the land.

Thank you for your interest. Keep an eye on your inbox for updates and to be the first to hear when registration opens!

Why this Course?

Our Purpose & Prayer

This course is part of a larger movement to inspire a return to earth-honoring ways of living. We live in urgent times that are paradoxically inviting us to slow down. Our modern lives, built upon systems rooted in separation and control, have removed us from each other and from basic human activities such as growing food, making cloth, and singing together. It is our inspiration to draw wisdom and nourishment from ancestral stories and crafts so that we may go forward as more embodied and empowered humans.

Spinning, weaving, and singing together help us to ground our lives into more beauty, intention, and connection. These practices hold great potential for personal and collective healing, and we’re excited to explore this together in the coming months. By joining this container, you’ll be both creating something meaningful with your hands, and coming together with a vibrant community of people who are weaving a more beautiful world into being.

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Heirloom Weaver's Kit
Optional Add-On (US Shipping Only)

For those seeking heirloom-quality tools to begin their journey, we’re honored to offer a limited number of handcrafted weaving kits created by artisans of the UK featuring materials sourced in the Celtic isles. After registering for the course, you’ll have the option to add on a kit.

  • Handcrafted Devon Oak handloom & weaving needle pendant
  • Milled "Peat" warp skein of Blue Faced Leicester wool
  • Handspun skein of Devon & Exmoor wool dyed with Madder & Oak
  • Handspun skein of Devon & Lonk wool
  • Handturned Scottish dealgan spindle & Orkney wool roving
  • Instructional video for spinning with your dealgan with Alexandra Juliette
  • Mailed to you in late January

Participant Reviews

"Hanna Leigh helps people to connect more deeply with earth by bringing together teachers of traditional song, story and craft. Her work helps those yearning for ancestral European wisdom to recover what has been forgotten. She has been deeply influenced by her own experiences in Ancestral Lineage Healing.

This is NOT TO BE MISSED!!"

~ Nala Walla, Grief Tender & Ancestral Healing Guide
"Through this powerful course, I have reclaimed some parts of myself that were scattered and I continue to explore and learn. Singing and music has been an important piece, along with the crafting work. I hope to be blessed to have the ability to return again to this course, and continue to connect with like-minded others along the path.

I will continue to hold the teachings, from everyone, teachers, classmates and take them forward with me to better the lives of others. Most importantly, Hanna and her team have shared their love, creativity, and joy, which is a gift, unto itself. "

~ N.P.
"As a complete beginner, I was amazed at how accessible these traditional crafts became through the patient guidance of such experienced teachers. What could have been an intimidating online learning experience turned into something wonderfully manageable - their gentle, step-by-step approach made spinning and weaving feel natural, even through a digital format. 🙏

The crafts we created now rest on my altar, precious reminders of this special journey."

~ S.L.
"As was mentioned on the community call, a rich tapestry, each of us receiving the wisdoms and teachings and weaving our threads alongside and as part of the cloth... I am so blessed to be welcomed into this beautiful community that Hanna Leigh, Lana & Katie have created."

~ G.F.
"I am so grateful. The more calls we have, the more I am convinced that our ancestors have excitedly guided us together. Thank you Hanna Leigh for your work in gathering us. The energy I feel during each call is both mystical and loving. I feel at home with these traditions, I feel drawn to the land, and I love the stories.

We are a beautiful circle."

~ K.J.
"I can't believe that today is our final call. What a rich and wonderful journey it has been, I am better for have taken it... Thank you for all the generous ways you wove us all together in such a supportive and beautiful container. I have eaten and my heart is full."

~ C.M.

What’s Included

We know that song, story & craft have the power to awaken ancient memory, and be a balm for our human challenges.

Our prayer is that this course will do just that.

  • 8 x 2 Hour Live Classes with Guest Teachers
  • Optional Weekly Small Group Weaving Sessions
  • Precious Bundle of Songs & Stories to Draw From
  • Connection with a Diverse Circle of Weavers, From First-Timers to Seasoned Hands
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What You'll Need

At their most basic, spinning and weaving require just three simple elements: fiber, spindle & loom.

If you’re joining our course and are new to the arts of spinning and weaving, you can choose your own path: either craft your tools using simple materials from around your home (a sturdy piece of cardboard becomes your loom, and a smooth stick can be transformed into a spindle), or purchase professionally crafted tools.

After registration, we’ll provide additional details for both options!

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Program Overview

Through the songs, stories & teachings shared by our guest teachers, may the living reality of earth and ancestral belonging be rekindled within you.

Classes are on Wednesdays @ 6:30pm GMT / 10:30am PST and are 2 hours each.

*IMPORTANT TIME ZONE NOTE:* The live call start time will shift by +1 hour in the final 2 weeks of the course for those in Canada/US due to daylight saving time.

Week 1

28th January

Opening Call ~ Weaving the Basket to Hold Us

w/ Hanna Leigh

Week 2

4th February

Spinning Our Spells: Learning to Spin

w/ Rosemary Riedel O’Brien

Week 3

11th February

Weaving Ancestral Connection

w/ Nikiah Seeds

Week 4

18th February

Apprentice to Story: Combing Medusa’s Hair

w/ Imogen Bright Moon

Week 5

25th February

Courting the Loom: Hand Craft as Prayer

w/ Rosemary Riedel O’Brien

Week 6

4th March

Prehistory & Practice Entwined

w/ Nicole DeRushie

Week 7

11th March

Singing the Old Threads: Creating Your Own Weaving Songs

w/ Hanna Leigh

Week 8

18th March

Closing Call & Community Celebration

w/ Hanna Leigh

Program Deep Dive

Many may have forgotten the old ways, though gratefully there are those still keeping the skills and songs alive, and others of us who are relearning them.

WEEK 1

Opening Call ~Weaving the Basket to Hold Us

Let the threads that first drew you to this work – perhaps whispered in dreams or felt as a clear intuition – weave with ours as we begin.

Our Opening Call will be a co-created ritual to weave the container that will hold us in the coming months. We will share in song and story to carry us forward, as well as grounding into the rhythms and practicals of our journey together.

May each gathering be a thread in the fabric of something beautiful, lasting, and alive.

WEEK 2

(1st Instructional Class)

Spinning Our Spells ~Learning to Spin

Ancestral Craft connects us to our innate Belonging to the Earth.

During this class with Rosemary Riedel O’Brien, we will learn to spin using the humble Drop Spindle and natural fibres. Together we will fuse the practical elements of Spinning with the magic of meaning, and conjure our own hand-spun yarn.

For our first instructional class on spinning you will need:

  • A drop spindle
  • Natural fiber to spin

WEEK 3

Weaving Ancestral Connection

In this workshop with Nikiah Seeds, you will be invited to reflect on your own ancestral connections and how all of us no matter our lineages will have weaving and spinning somewhere as a part of our ancestral memories.

Together, we will explore how both spinning and weaving have direct connections to magic, and storytelling, as well as how our ancestors functioned in direct relation to land they lived on, the sheep that gave them wool and their spinning wheels and looms.

We will explore some of the things we know from archeology and Nikiah will draw on the work of Mary B. Kelly – an author and weaver  known for her extensive research and documentation of folk weavings and textiles, which explored pre-Christian symbols of fertility and goddesses in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Greece, and Scandinavia. 

Within her work we begin to see evidence of folk belief, animism and folk magic and how these things deeply influenced the weaving of our ancestors.

WEEK 4

Apprentice to Story ~ Combing Medusa’s Hair

This class will draw upon several types of liminal-map; those nomadic paths across certain lands, taken on foot over 1,400 years in living memory, always toward the sunset; later taken by boat, then by wagon; the map of echo-location which uses time as its surface, and the maps hidden in textiles, spun and woven to the touch, and deeply felt. That we are spinner-weavers, here gathered today in 2026, is testimony to the sustainable longevity of textile crafts; what they hold and where they come from. The source of spinning and weaving crafts is powerful, rich, and can be remembered today as the Grandmother-Muse sung about in the Edda, the canticle, and the rich tapestry of folk songs of many lands and times. In this storytelling, we will travel back as far as memory can reach, to make contact with the Archetypal Craftswoman and her pattern of symbols, motifs and thresholds, bringing her consciously into our work of craft today.

WEEK 5

(2nd Instructional Class)

Courting the Loom ~Hand Craft as Prayer

The Loom is a tap root of Remembrance. It offers us a space to freely explore our creativity, dreams and connection to the web of Life. During this session we will work with a Handloom and our own hand-spun thread to explore the arts of slow craft and the power of Making with Intention.

Join Rosemary for our second instructional class where together we will court the handloom to create an offering cloth. For this class at its most simple essence, you will need:

  • A handloom
  • Yarn to weave

WEEK 6

Prehistory and Practice Entwined

In this session, join scholar-practitioner Nicole DeRushie – author of “Bog Fashion” – to learn about the earliest fibre traditions in European Prehistory with a focus on the British Isles. More information TBA!

WEEK 7

Singing the Old Threads ~ Create Your Own Weaving Songs

Traditional weaving songs began with people at the loom, singing about life and their craft. Imagine that, in a few generations, there may be others singing the very songs we are creating today. What would we want to pass forward, encoded in both fresh and familiar melodies? Whether or not you’ve ever written a song before, this session invites you to experiment with creating a song inspired by your journey with spinning and weaving. It’s going to be a fun!

WEEK 8

Closing Call ~ Our Story Weaves On

In our final call, we’ll explore how the threads we’ve woven can carry us forward, nourishing new beginnings even as we mark this completion of our 8-week journey.

This call will be a time to celebrate what we’ve woven both literally and metaphorically – the tangible cloths and yarns our hands have crafted, and the fabric of community, connection, and joy we’ve spun together. 

Meet the Teachers

Hanna Leigh

Hi! My name is Hanna Leigh, (IG: @hannaleighsong) and I am a Singer-Songwriter, Voice Doula, Weaver, and Devotee of this precious, living Earth. I was raised in California (Chumash territory) though in recent years have spent extensive time residing on ancestral lands in the Celtic isles. My people migrated to the U.S. several generations ago from England, Scotland, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.

This organization, Weaving Remembrance, was birthed through my own passion to to reclaim ancestral wisdom and grow in intimate reciprocity with this miraculous earth that sustains us.

I feel passionate about inspiring folks to connect with ancestral crafts, particularly spinning & weaving. These practices have brought much magic & goodness into my life, and I feel they are important anchors for the turbulent times we are in. Come join us in the practical magic of reawakening to these old ways!

Rosemary Riedel O'Brien Weaver Dartmoor England Wild Rose Weaving

Rosemary Riedel O'Brien

Rosemary Riedel O’Brien is a multi disciplinary Artist specialising in hand spinning, weaving and natural dye techniques.

Rosemary’s work is inspired by the Earth and her elements. She works with heritage slow craft processes to combine ethical materials, spirituality and creativity- an alchemical combination that forms the foundations of her bespoke textiles and workshops that are rooted in reverence.

In 2019 Rosemary completed a 6 month Hand Spinning and Weaving apprenticeship at the Bright Moon studio with Artist Maker Imogen Bright Moon, in South-Eastern England. She has since gone on to create a number of seasonal collections and offer weaving tuition and weekend craft rituals.

She has been working consistently with commissions since completing her apprenticeship. Her unique approach emphasises the importance of the intention, symbolism and hidden meaning that each hand woven textile can represent within a persons life.

She lives near Dartmoor, England and continues to deepen her practice.

Nikiah Seeds

Nikiah Seeds is a weaver, and ancestral spirit worker with 20 years of teaching women and facilitating ceremony in the realms of the unseen. She has a deep passion for working with and understanding our ancestors and her weaving work is a direct reflection of that relationship.

Nikiah is also a storyteller and loves to share stories during her weaving workshops where she weaves the mytho-poetic and anthropological aspects of the connection between women, ritual, and weaving/textiles.

Nikiah offers both online and in person classes offering custom sacred weavings, sacred weaving classes supporting women to weave their own sacred items such as an ancestral altar cloth, womb belt and selkie pelt. In these classes Nikiah weaves storytelling, and the sacred and often magical connections women historically have had to weaving both for protection and healing. Nikiah also offers ancestral healing work, Drum Making, and bone throwing divination.

Imogen Bright Moon

Imogen Bright Moon (IG: @imogen.bright.moon) is a British Romani artist and writer in textile crafts. Having established Bright Moon Weaving Studio in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2016, Imogen listened to the land and sea for stories into craft, actively working with folklore to integrate her experiences of motherhood and Celtic ancestral teachings via her woven exhibition and publication The Selkie : Weaving & The Wild Feminine, 2018. Her spinning apprenticeship-format book Wild Yarn; creating hand-spun yarn from ethical fibres was published by Batsford in 2024, and is available internationally. Imogen has contributed poetry to international anthology Wagtail, 2021, and The Wheel – Weaving the Feminine Archetypes, 2025.

Nicole DeRushie

Nicole is an ancient textiles scholar-practitioner and author of international bestseller, Bog Fashion.

With a background in bushcraft and outdoor education, she links textile history to the land, and promotes it as an immersive aspect of environmental connectedness. She lives in Oxford and additionally works in local museums.

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  • Precious bundle of songs & stories to draw from
  • Connection with a diverse circle of weavers
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  • Optional Weekly Cohort Sessions
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  • Connection with a diverse circle of weavers
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Frequently Asked Questions

No. Anyone who is called to this course is welcome to join!

This offering is happening online through Zoom, with teachers joining us from several different countries.

Yes. They will be recorded and uploaded to our course & community platform.

No. The nature of the content delivery is that you purchase the entire course.

You will have access to the recordings for one year from the start date of the course.

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