About Weaver Rae

The Sea in Penwith is your constant - It is where you ground yourself, tap into the source, recalibrate. The vibrations of the crashing waves, you can feel rumbling through the very earth beneath you during winter when the Atlantic swell persists, I could hear it from my bedroom window as a child. Penwith. Hiraeth. Salty atoms course through my veins

Hence I have developed an eye for selecting and blending colour and texture to form unique and timeless pieces that encapsulate my enchanted sea and landscapes of my motherland.

With inspiration drawn in from the surrounding tide, tor and folklore of West Cornwall and a life infused with heritage rural craft, I weave artisan cloth of British and Cornish wool in form of blanket scarves, scarves and more. Luxury adornments made to be revelled in for generations.

My roots are in West Cornwall where I was born and where I have almost always lived. Bought up in St. Just, the sea is a constant. as is my Collie Bran

For most of my life I’ve not lived more than five miles from the sea. For almost all of my adult life I have lived off-grid – in the garden. So my connection with nature has deep roots.

Creativity has always shone through to me as a medium and lifestyle that I understood, art, music and nature were my languages as a youth. I have explored many different mediums, till I found my calling much later – in weaving.

A calling feels like an appropriate term, as to be Weaver is also my namesake. Born in to the Weaver family I am the first in living memory on my paternal side. However on my maternal grandparents in their early years, taught themselves to weave as a hobby after my engineer Grandad Eric built my artistic Grandmother a table loom.

How the past can sometimes echo the present. My partner is too named Eric, a traditional sailing ship rigger, and in 2020 he decided to design and build me a loom. A rudimentary prototype built of readily available materials during Covid lockdown, pallet wood and string. Off-the-back of a wild idea to combine my learned skills in greenwood chairmaking, I wanted to upholster with woven fabric panels (an idea yet to come to fruition.)

My loomsmith and I taught ourselves to weave. One loom led to a few successful scarf sales. Which led to a new-improved loom, reminiscent of the square-rigged tall ships Eric used to captain. Read more about the Making of my Loom here.

There are many facets to weaving as opposed to the act of weaving, all of the dreaming, calculating, measuring, preparation, warping, winding, threading, sleying – each irresistible and entirely mindful – for you can think of nothing else. This suits my attention span and when I get locked-in to the rhythm and flow of each act, I can loose hours.

In the past decade I have studied contemporary and traditional art and design and hand-crafted furniture-making. Further endeavours have encompassed my passions in horticulture, native botany and environmental conservation.

Creativity has always been a key component of my identity and core interests. Especially utilising clothing and accessories as forms of self-expression, art and identity. A love of music is reciprocated in the natural rhythm that I find in my weaving