Roots and Threads | A Year of Ritual and Ancestral Craft.

A year-long ceremonial journey through seasonal ritual, ancestral crafts, and wild reconnection.

This offering is for those who feel the call to remember — not only through story and spirit, but through their hands. Across ten weekends, we will gather as a circle of makers, dreamers, and threshold-walkers. We will craft, weave, spin, stitch, dye, and drum. We will walk the land, call to the fire, tend what is sacred, and remember what was never truly lost.

This is not a course in productivity or perfection. This is an invitation into rhythm, to come into seasonal relationship with your body, your creativity, your ancestors, and the animate world around you. It is a practice of embodied remembrance, rooted in slowness, devotion, and myth.

Each weekend will centre around a ritual craft and a guiding with a wild call, woven with ceremony, land-based practice, and community.

We begin in September 2025. Our final gathering in September where 2026 will gather all the threads we've spun together.

Weft | 20th & 21st September | Craft: Raw Wool Sit Mats |

For our first weekend we will immerse ourselves into the traditional practice of peg loom weaving and we will also learn about processing different types of wool as we weave our own raw wool sit mats.  

We will be exploring divination and we will begin to create our own divination kits finding out who is calling to us and the stories they hold and weave.

Threshold | 18th and 19th October | Craft : Clay |

With our sit mats in hand we will be heading out onto the land, exploring connection with place and inviting ourselves to step into new ways of being with the wild land around us.   We will be discovering ways to connect with nature with our feet in the earth and find fresh tendrils reaching out, inviting us to fall back into deep relationship with the wilds around us. We will be meeting the ancestors of these lands,.

Wild | 15th and 16th November | Craft: Wild Wool Collars |

As we start rediscovering our wild selves we will be spending a weekend crafting and creating our own wild wool collars. We will be bringing ourselves into animal bodies and start to feel into our raw power, co-creating ceremonies, making and exploring rituals that can help us feed our inner fire.

Heath | 24th & 25th January | Craft: Spinning & Dyeing Wool |

This weekend we will be trying our hands at spinning and learning to spin wool into threads with which to weave. We will be carding wool, exploring plant dyeing and creating bundles of hand spun wool, full of magic and intentions to weave at our next gathering.  

Rite | 28th February & 1st March | Craft ; Womb Belt/ Life Belt |

We will be gathering up the wool we have hand spun and dyed as we explore weaving on Heddle looms or backstrap weaving looms,  creating womb belts, life belts or altar cloths.  

We will take our looms out onto the lands and explore weaving with wild kin. We will use some of the techniques we have experienced around connection to place to create  beautiful and sacred weavings which will become intentional story pieces for you to dive back into time and time again. You will take these looms home with you to continue your creations, weaving together all your magic and wonder into these pieces which will be powerful vessels to hold you during ceremony and ritual.

Gather | 20th and 21st March | Craft : Drum Making |

This weekend we will be birthing our frame drums.   

We will bring all our magic as we welcome the birth of your drum into this world, each with their own unique spirit and their own medicine, which always arises through the birthing process. 

Birthing your own drum is a very powerful experience and it is said to be a time where you can rewrite your own birth story. Throughout our day Louise will become your midwife , guiding and supporting you fully in birthing your own drum.

Folk | 25th & 26th April | Craft : Spirit of the Drum |

 Over this weekend we will deepen the connections to your drums, there will be the opportunity to paint our drums or adorn them and we will learn about the sacredness of drums, building relationships and meeting some of our spirit guides, understanding drum journeying and learning to map the landscapes in our hidden worlds. We will be drumming and dreaming and dropping into conversation the imaginerial realms.  

Tides | 27th & 28th June | Craft : Rattle Making |

Over these two days you will be crafting your own dream rattle filled with all your own magic, power and intention.  We will cover ceremony, opening sacred space and honouring the animal hide we will be using to craft your rattle. We will look at designs and shapes for your rattle and we will weave in both plant kin & crystals or stones or other elements that call. In exploring and discovering who or what will support you in rattling, we will finish our rattles with decorative adornments, such as feathers, bones or paint.

Spirit | 25th & 26th July | Craft : Spirit Dolls |

We will be calling forth the grandmothers, weavers, spinners and doll makers from our lineages and from the lands around us, to join us in a beautifully curated weekend of connection with our inner creatrixes to craft our very own spirit dolls.  Doll making is a heart opening, soul level conversation that we feel might not only stir deep magic within your bones, but also offer a profound healing practice.  It is from here, once you reclaim the long lost remembering of the art of doll making that the brightest of pathways seem to have this way of opening up  in the most glorious ways. We will be meeting pine and exploring ways how this tall tree kin can support us as we walk the green pathways of these lands. 

Cloth | 25th, 26th, 27th September | Craft : Medicine Pouch |

Our final gathering will be a retreat over 3 days in a beautiful location in Wales. Here we will be crafting our own medicine pouches and exploring plant kin and land connection. We will celebrate and weave together all the stories, magic, and wonder that we gathered over the  year together.  We will practise wild rites of passage and walk the lands, speak our stories and gather around the fire, working with the threads of  ourselves and our relationship with heart, self, other and land.

Investment: 

Full investment: £2500

Bookings can be made by clicking here. You can either choose to pay in one payment of £2500, or split the costs across 12 months. Please note payments will start when you book your place.

 What is included ?

• A welcome bundle of handmade gifts .

• All creations you make are yours to keep. ( Raw Wool Sit Mat, Wild Wool Collar, 14 inch Shamanic Drum, Shamanic Dream Rattle, Drum beater, Ceremonial Weaving, Spirit doll, Plant medicines, Annointing Oils)

• All tuition

What’s not included:

• Travel cost

• Please bring sharing lunches

• Please note this is not a resudental Vourse

Frequently Asked Questions…..

Where will the weekends be held?   Most weekends will be at my cottage on the Ludlow, Herefordshire boarder.  The last gathering is a three day retreat in Wales. There will be some days throughout the year where we may travel further afield, but these will be discussed and agreed with the group and on these occasions travel arrangements will be discussed and agreed with the group, including car share etc .   

Being out on the land creates several challenges. When we are out on the land the weather will form an intrinsic part of this work and will be an element we will incorporate into our days together, so please always make sure you have suitable outdoor clothing – when we will be outside we will clearly communicate this to you in advance.  

We both hold a First Aid Certificate in Outdoor and Wilderness First Aid and will always complete a risk assessment in advance of our days together.

I am not very fit and I have some limitations in my mobility, can I still do this.?   Yes – please be in touch to discuss and so that we can find ways to ensure you are supported during our time together.

If I cannot make a weekend what happens? Unfortunately  we are  unable to offer catch up weekends for any sessions that you miss.

I have not done any of this kind of work before, but I am really called to this year?  Wonderful!  No previous experience needed.  We will be your guide throughout our time together, however what we do ask is that you come with an open heart and mind.

Is there any option of a payment plan?   Yes, a payment plan is avalible by clicking here

Can I call you discuss?  Yes , please drop us a message at Hello@weavingwonderment.com,

I am ready to book my place, how do I do this?. booking can be made by clicking here .