The Fibre Cycle

Seasonal gatherings for learning, making and shared practice.

The Fibre Cycle is an invitation to cultivate the sensitive eyes and attentive hands of the seasonal maker.

It is an opportunity to notice what is plentiful, what is ripe for harvesting, what has fallen or been pruned, and what a particular material might be asking of us. As we move between basket weaving, eco-dyeing, mending, spinning and other earth-based creative processes, we begin to discover the possibilities held within different fibres, and to feel into which materials, techniques and ideas draw us in.

Each season brings its own offerings and limitations, rhythms and invitations. The Fibre Cycle creates space to follow those shifts, turn ideas over in our hands, explore unexpected connections between practices, and allow our making to be guided by curiosity, inspiration and a deepening attentiveness to the living world.

Beginning with an immersive summer weekend in February, The Fibre Cycle unfolds across the year, following the changing seasons and the materials they offer us.

Each season brings together project days, where a particular basket weaving technique or textile process is introduced and explored, and open studio sessions, offering time to continue your work, ask questions, experiment share ideas and make alongside others.

Project days offer focused teaching, demonstrations and time to settle into a process. Open studio sessions provide a more spacious counterpart: a chance to return to something you’ve begun, experiment with an idea, work through a tricky part, or simply give yourself time to play.

You might bring a basket to continue working on, a piece of clothing waiting to be mended, wool ready to spin or materials you’re curious to explore. If you’ve missed a project day, the open studio offers a chance to catch up and receive support. Or you might arrive with no particular plan, allowing the time and company to guide you.

These gatherings are an invitation to work at your own pace, share cups of tea and conversation, and enjoy the quiet companionship of a group of people developing their practices alongside one another. Open studio days are optional, so you can come to as many as your schedule allows.

Alongside this time shared in person, we will also have a WhatsApp group so we can share our weaving progress along the way.

Each season has its own focus, with a changing collection of materials, techniques and projects to explore.

☀️ Summer · February

Melon basket weaving · cordage making

We begin with an immersive weekend of weaving, with time to settle into the process of making a melon basket and explore the possibilities of cordage. Weather permitting, we'll spend part of Sunday weaving together beside the river.

Weekend weaving immersion

Saturday 20 February, 11am–4pm

Sunday 21 February, 11am–4pm


Optional open studio

Thursday 25 February, 7–9pm


🍂 Autumn · March–May

Random weave market basket · Mending: darning and patching

As the season turns, we'll explore the form and structure of a random weave basket alongside the patient, resourceful practice of repairing and extending the life of our textiles.

Project days · Sundays 11am–3pm

14 March

18 April

16 May


Optional open studio sessions

Tuesday 16 March, 7–9pm

Thursday 18 March, 11am–3pm

Tuesday 4 May, 7–9pm

Thursday 6 May, 11am–3pm


❄️ Winter · June–August

Coil baskets · Eco-printing on cloth · Spinning wool with a drop spindle

Winter invites us into slower, tactile processes: building form through coil weaving, exploring botanical impressions on cloth, and learning to draw fleece into yarn with a drop spindle.

Project days · Sundays, 11am–3pm

20 June

18 July

15 August


Optional open studio sessions

Tuesday 22 June, 6:30–8:30pm

Thursday 24 June, 11am–3pm

Tuesday 27 July, 6:30–8:30pm

Thursday 29 July, 11am–3pm


🌱 Spring · September–November

Sunhat weaving · Wet-felted pouches · Eco-printing on paper

As the year opens out again, we'll explore wearable weaving, the shaping and felting of wool, and the possibilities of botanical colour on paper, with time to make journals and cards.

Project days · Sundays, 11am–3pm

12 September

24 October

21 November


Optional open studio sessions

Tuesday 12 October, 7–9pm

Thursday 14 October, 11am–3pm

Tuesday 9 November, 7–9pm

Thursday 11 November, 11am–3pm

There is a particular richness in returning to a shared practice over time. With fibres in hand, the gentle rhythms of making and the changing seasons around us, familiarity grows. Techniques become more intuitive, projects take unexpected turns, and questions emerge that could only come from spending time with a material and living with a process before returning to it.

Gradually, something begins to form around the making itself: a community of people sharing skills, materials, food, ideas and offering one another the natural support that comes from working alongside others.

The Fibre Cycle makes room for this kind of unfolding. Learning extends beyond a single workshop, projects have time to develop, and there is space for both the planned and the unexpected. It is an invitation to deepen your relationship with materials and creative processes, while allowing your own practice to evolve at its own pace.

As we gather and create together, we will also explore respectful fibre harvesting and preparation, developing a more intimate relationship with the materials we work with and the living landscapes from which they come.

You can join for a single season or for the whole year.

Each seasonal booking includes all project days and open studio sessions offered within that season. Individual sessions are not booked separately, allowing each season to have a sense of continuity and connection. While the project days form the core of each seasonal offering, the open studio gatherings are optional, giving you flexibility in how often you attend.

Alternatively, join for the full year and follow the cycle from summer through spring, building a collection of skills, exploring different materials and allowing your making practice to evolve across the changing seasons.

Whether you are relatively new to basket weaving and textile processes or have an established making practice, there is room to learn, experiment, follow your curiosity and discover where the materials lead you.

A year of earth-based making, seasonal connection and shared practice.

*If you would like to avoid the Humanitix fees please reach out for direct payment.

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Shelley is both a master of her craft and an incredible teacher. This combination of skills combined with her wonderful, generous hospitality makes for a course that I could not recommend highly enough!

I’ve been loving this series. My mind has been blown on every occasion. It has been such a privilege to work with all these special materials - hand foraged with such care!

- Becca

I’ve loved the slow connection time we’ve shared as a group, it’s felt safe, vulnerable and no pressure. Shelley‘s way of teaching combined with the ease of self expression and creativity has felt both held and freeing. I am ending this feeling empowered and capable in my new skills and knowledge.

I would recommend any of Shelley‘s workshops but particularly this series. The ongoing engagement and learning has deepened the skills, confidence and knowledge. The accountability to show up and work with others. The teaching style allows you to lean into your own creative expression while held in the support and learning. Shelley creates a space that is soft, safe, engaging and slow the skills and materials provided leave you feeling so empowered.

- Kayleigh

A lovely winter escape to be in the creative space one Sunday each month and be introduced to a practice that is so old and yet so unchanged. It’s been a wonderful experience.

The safe and collaborative space was very gentle and calming. Shelley is a patient and kind teacher. Learning something so creative and also has brought me a lot of joy.

- Past workshop participant

Thank you so much Shelley, your workshop was an absolute treat, you ran it seamlessly in every way!

Hope to see you again for another one soon!

- Anna

Shelley brings such knowledge, care, depth and skill to these weaving workshops to help the knowing in our hands remember and our souls re-weave back into relationship with the natural world and an intentional handmade life.

Loved it all! So grateful for the different techniques, all the fibres to play with and your knowledge. Loved the others’ shares too.

- Kirstan

So much nourishment weaving with you all, circle of women, busy dirty hands, tea and conversations 👌
- Sara