Slowness | “Real Life Takes Time” We find value in slowness as a means of protest against the daily pressures of capitalism.  Observing the passing of  each moment, relishing boredom, and playing with pace are strategies for transforming our daily lives into  nonlinear sites of expansion. Weaving lends to slowness, and when you make already slow tasks even slower, the experience becomes itself. Slowness is a way of  accessing magic and honoring the time that things take.


^{Myth | Remembering}  
Hand work is mythology in practice. Through technique, we channel the ancient lineage of craft. Cloth holds memory. It is a tangible record of time, a riddle-story connected to living cycles . Myth grants us access to the collective heart of the  past.  Through storytelling,  we return to a shared history  of struggle,  love, and earthly knowledge. Remembering and recordkeeping empower us - by making our own myths,  we stake a claim in the now and  devote our energies to a living world .


^{Ceremony | Ritual Thresholds}
Ceremony is a space between worlds that changes all worlds. It brings us back into our bodies to honor the cosmic and mundane.  We invent ceremonies for what we are moving towards.  Honoring the sacred is a radical means of self determination.  With reverence and play, we  harness the power of ceremony, and celebration to practice embodiment.  When we create our own customs and commune through play, we reify our desire as portals. Everything we want leads to something else.


^{Failure | Attempting}
Embracing messiness and bravery,  failure is our teacher. There is no hierarchy of what beginners should  try, you can go anywhere from anywhere. We iterate, adjust and delight to  fail again.  The deep knowing that we will never  get it right is how we begin.  Honoring failure makes real risk possible, and we won’t win the world we want without risk. Following failure,  desire, grief, boredom, and slowness we  experiment and create in the service of something beautiful.


^{Serious / not serious}
Horseplay mischief, whirling indulgence, faff, acting the giddy goat, loitering, having a good time.  Nonsense is an opener. Breaking inherited logics requires nonlinear thinking, puttering around and raising hell. Levity, goofing off, lollygagging, and pleasure are respected parts of the process.  The trickster questions authority and spins the  chaos games we need to destabilize the calcified. Greeting work with a spirit of play and taking nonsense seriously are strategies for making magic. When we honor wild urges we bolster our innate creative power.


^{Relationships  |  Affinity}
Worldbuilding, weaving a web of people,  merging disparate worlds.  Everything else is a red herring, time together is elemental.  Since all we have is each other, we have everything we need.  Building systems of care is as much a creative practice as it is a means of survival.  We reject individualism because we thrive in community.  Spaces of encounter and conflict are uniquely potent sites for connection and discovery.


^{Materiality  | Earthboundness}
“Material, that is to say unformed or unshaped matter, is the field where authority blocks independent experimentation less than in many other fields, and for this reason it seems well fitted to become the training ground for invention and free speculation.”-Anni Albers,  Silk, linen, and wool - Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Material is a connective realm. It brings  limits to expanse, possibilities to form, conceptual to physical, us to earth, use to beauty. To be intimate with materials and familiar with processes is to follow one’s curiosity about  the world.  The seasons facilitate our relationship to our surroundings; when we follow, we are rewarded with an abundance of life. In reciprocity with material and process, we are also changed.  Who do we become when we engage in simple, repeatable tasks?  when we  transform materials we find in the natural world, we ourselves are transformed.


^{Keep the World Alive | Resistance to Oppression}
Weaving is embedded in a history of  revolution.  Placing faith in our power  we reorient towards freedom.  We know what we deserve and we know how to love.  This knowledge becomes material strength when we practice it together.  Against empire, we keep going.