The Fates Weaving Book Beginnings
When three weavers meet . . .
In an ancient ceremony, one that echoes through the ether and tends to us in the dreamtime : Rosemary Riedel O’Brien, Lily Aisbitt-Waugh and Imogen Bright Moon : Maiden, Mother and Crone meet upon the sacred and ancient land of the Grandmothers': Dartmoor. Through their expert hands they tend to a bone knowing deep within, a wisdom that spins yarn from their fingertips and weaves cloth from their deep listening. How can these potent archetypes be journeyed with through their coming together to weave and spin alongside one another?
When any three women meet to weave in such a way the spirit of the fates is summoned. This meeting will call in the Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, Moirai, Norns, Deivės Valdytojos,Parcae,Rozhanitsy : or The Fates. They will be invited to come to dance their power of creating our destiny, the weaving of time as it spread out before us and the documenting of all that is and has been through their cloth. This project seeks to document this coming together of three weavers in reverence and curiosity of the great mystery of the Fates, the beauty that is made between them being manifested as an offering to the goddesses that weave our destiny.
The weavers will come together with treasures made for the ceremony, three womb belts, three varafeldur collars, three prayer mats. Adorned in these rich ceremonial adornments they will create together for the day. A woad vat will be set upon an open fire to dye handspun yarn from their spindles. A bronze age replica warp weighted loom, handmade from cornish oak, will be set up outside on the Moor to be woven on. Tablet weaving will be done, keeping the tension from a staff hammered into the earth on the Moor to make belts. They will play together, make together and pray together in this beautiful coming together of sisters.
Photographer and visionary Michaela Meadow has documented these days of alchemy. The photographs are intended to be compiled into a collaborative book. Within this will be poetry, short essays and reflections on their meeting that will be alongside the photographs. We intend to make a genre crossing art book, showing both the process and end product of our work together.
