We Are the Weavers

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

12th March - 30th April, 2025
Wednesdays at 10:30am PDT / 5:30pm GMT

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 practice, this container is an opportunity to awaken our hands & our voices, creating beauty & magic together.

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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Materials To Gather

At their most basic, spinning and weaving require just three simple elements:

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!

For those seeking heirloom-quality tools to begin their journey, we're honored to offer a limited number of handcrafted weaving kits created by Rosemary, our guest teacher, with materials sourced in the Celtic isles. Read below to learn about this special offering.

Heirloom Weaver's Kit
SOLD OUT
  • Handcrafted & foraged Devon oak loom
  • Foraged Devon Oak weaving needle
  • Shetland 'Wren' warp skein
  • Handspun Hebridean & Shetland yarn with Irish linen
  • Handspun Lonk & Herdwick yarn
  • Handspun yarn naturally dyed with Woad & Nettle
  • 1 Scottish beeswax candle with Celtic knotwork design
  • Mailed to you in early March

Participant Reviews

"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.
"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 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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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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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 @ 10:30am PDT / 5:30pm GMT*

*IMPORTANT TIME ZONE NOTE:  Our weekly call start time will shift +/-1 hour for those who reside outside of North America starting Week 4 & for the remainder of the course. For example, for those in the UK, the start time from April 2nd forward will change to 6:30pm BST.

Week 1

12th March

Opening Call & Weaving the Basket to Hold Us

w/ Hanna Leigh

Week 2

19th March

Spinning Our Spells: Learning to Spin

w/ Rosemary Riedel O’Brien

Week 3

26th March

The Spindlewhorls of Old Europe

w/ Sylvia Linsteadt

Week 4

2nd April

Spinning the Yarn: Stories of Spindles & Spinsters

w/ Nana Tomova

Week 5

9th April

Courting the Loom: Hand Craft as Prayer

w/ Rosemary Riedel O’Brien

Week 6

16th April

Weaving Penelope’s Songs

w/ Sylvia Linsteadt

Week 7

23rd April

Singing the Old Threads: Creating Your Own Weaving Songs

w/ Hanna Leigh

Week 8

30th April

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

w/ Hanna Leigh

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

Spinning Our Spells ~Learning to Spin

w/ Rosemary Riedel O'Brien

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

During this class, 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

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

Her 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.

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

Rosemary Riedel O'Brien Weaver Dartmoor England Wild Rose Weaving

Week 3

The Spindlewhorls of Old Europe ~Storytelling Session

w/ Sylvia Linsteadt

In this session, Sylvia will guide us back to the Neolithic roots of European women’s traditions connected to spinning. She will share images of ancient spindlewhorls carved with symbols of fertility and blessing, stories of the ancestral women who used them, and the goddesses to whom they dedicated their textile tools and sacred threads. She will also discuss the connection between spinning women, goddesses of fate, and the tellers of fairytales. 

Sylvia Victor Linsteadt is an author, a scholar of ancient history and myth, a wildlife tracker, and a lover of all things spun and woven. Her books—both fiction & non-fiction—are rooted in myth, ecology, feminism & bioregionalism, and are devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land.

Most recently, she created and taught the popular course When Women Were the Land: Unearthing Old European Myths and Histories for Advaya, all about reclaiming the matrilineal stories of our ancestral heritage in Europe.

Textile work has always been central to Sylvia’s creative process, ever since she was a young girl and first learned to knit and crochet. Her spinning wheel has been a source of poetic inspiration and grounding for almost two decades, and her research into women’s textile traditions, particularly in ancient Greece, is one of her greatest passions.

Sylvia divides her time between her pine forest home on Coast Miwok ancestral land on the Point Reyes Peninsula in California where she was born, and Devon, England. She is of British, Irish, Danish/German, and Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian, Lithuanian, and Hungarian) descent.

Week 4

Spinning the Yarn ~Stories of Spindles & Spinsters

w/ Nana Tomova

Come spin a yarn as we join Nana to hear two traditional tales of women and spinning from Bulgaria and Norway. Together we’ll explore the imagery and mythology of the stories – from the distaff, to the thread.

Nana Tomova was born where the Black Sea meets the Old Mountain, and carries in her bones old Bulgarian stories. Tales of wild women and old magic; of moon milk and shrouded forests; of sun brides and mountain mists. She is the creator of the Story Apothecary Podcast, where she dispenses stories as medicine. 

When not thinking of stories, Nana can be found walking amongst the hills and forests, gathering plants, or spinning at her wheel.

Rosemary Riedel O'Brien Weaver Dartmoor England Wild Rose Weaving

Week 5

Courting the Loom ~Hand Craft as Prayer

w/ Rosemary Riedel O'Brien

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

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

Her 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.

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

Week 6

Weaving Penelope's Songs ~Storytelling Session

w/ Sylvia Linsteadt

In the ancient Greek tradition, one of the only places women could express their power and the truth of their own stories was through their relationship to their weaving and their looms. In this session, Sylvia will share stories of Penelope, Helen, and Clytemnestra from the Odyssey and the Iliad, exploring how cloth and cloth-making can hold spells of peace and prayers of regeneration and the fertility of the earth, even in times of war. Dreaming into these stories, as well as the more ancient Neolithic magic of loom-weights and their symbols, we will do some prayer-weaving of our own.

Sylvia Victor Linsteadt is an author, a scholar of ancient history and myth, a wildlife tracker, and a lover of all things spun and woven. Her books—both fiction & non-fiction—are rooted in myth, ecology, feminism & bioregionalism, and are devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land.

Most recently, she created and taught the popular course When Women Were the Land: Unearthing Old European Myths and Histories for Advaya, all about reclaiming the matrilineal stories of our ancestral heritage in Europe.

Textile work has always been central to Sylvia’s creative process, ever since she was a young girl and first learned to knit and crochet. Her spinning wheel has been a source of poetic inspiration and grounding for almost two decades, and her research into women’s textile traditions, particularly in ancient Greece, is one of her greatest passions.

Sylvia divides her time between her pine forest home on Coast Miwok ancestral land on the Point Reyes Peninsula in California where she was born, and Devon, England. She is of British, Irish, Danish/German, and Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian, Lithuanian, and Hungarian) descent.

Week 7

Singing the Old Threads ~ Creating Your Own Weaving Songs

w/ Hanna Leigh

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!

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!

Week 8

Closing Call ~ Our Story Weaves On

w/ Hanna Leigh

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. 

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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 sent out soon after each class.

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.

No. Due to the delivery of course content, all sales are final.