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Weaving a Life is a process of exploring working with our hands as a pathway to peace within ourselves, in community, and with the earth.
Weaving a Life helps people everywhere realize the treasures that live within us by offering experiences and tools that enrich our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
Weaving a Life speaks to the human spirit as we explore with our hands the connections of our inner beliefs about ourselves with our daily actions, in our home life, our spiritual life and with our world community.
New weavers will learn tapestry techniques, and seasoned weavers find new sculptural dimensions in their work: the essence of the Weaving a Life process is an experience of weaving our personal fabric.
News: Recent Interviews
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Interview with UMission
UMission, a non-profit that celebrates people who are passionate about their missions, interviewed Susan Barrett Merrill. See the interview here >>
2. Interview with Sacred Life Arts
Listen to Susan interviewed by Sybil Dana Reynolds of Sacred Life Arts
“Our brain is an intricate loom of billions of neural pathways with a huge potential for weaving internal interconnections and connections out to the world.”
--Arthur Auer, M.Ed, in "Learning About the World Through Modeling"
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Connecting Hands and Heart
The Weaving a Life approach is not just conceptual; it brings handwork to a broad audience by providing the simple materials for enriching creative activity. The weaving of the keyforms is itself a process of deepening awareness through connecting the hands and heart in a journey of self-discovery. A fundamental part of the Weaving a Life approach is that the journey can be an outdoor adventure as well: the loom and the techniques are portable, allowing you to bring your work into the woods, to the sea, or to any place that moves and inspires you.
Susan's book is being sold in stores across the US, and has made its way as far as Australia, the UK, India, Central America, Bermuda, the Caribbean and Peru. 144 pages of photographs and text introduce the Weaving a Life approach with the concept of keyforms and their meanings. Over 200 photos and illustrations give example and inspiration. Patterns and detailed directions for weaving each of the seven keyforms are provided, including for the first time the secret of weaving the unique Zati mask.
A reader shares her mask story
What are Weaving Circles?
Weaving Circles are groups who gather to weave, on the Journey Loom, the seven Weaving a Life keyforms, elemental forms that lead us on a journey of discovery, learning to integrate what we love with what we do in the world. Weaving Circles also serve in Circle of Service projects. More...
Store: Looms, Books, Media
A Gift Package of Journey Loom and Book for just $99
New! Personalize It! Our Gift Pack of our own hand-crafted Journey Loom and a copy of ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life plus a special note card, all for $99-- a $115 value!
How to Personalize Your Giftpack >>
The Gift Pack is a wonderful way to treat yourself or someone you love in a special way. The beauty and meaning will give joy to whoever receives this handsome boxed starter set of Weaving a Life products.More on the Gift Pack
Order the Gift Pack: $99.00
ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life
ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life
The new softcover edition of Susan Barrett Merrill's ground-breaking book is in high demand wherever we go. The book is much more than a how-to book on basic tapestry weaving, though it includes much instruction. The Weaving a Life approach is a heart-centered approach to weaving, recognizing weaving as both a means and a metaphor for conscious living.
We have found that people seeking meaning in their lives, spiritual growth, or a deeper connection to their communities, all want more than concepts to understand. We have spoken with people who are hungry for a way to connect to life with their hands, with materials that come direct from the earth, to bring warmth and richness to lives dominated by virtual experience and a culture that feels increasingly confused.
Downloads
ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life
Details on this essential Weaving a Life book
Download the book in digital formats:
Order Audio Book as MP3 Download: $16.95
Order as PDF eBook
(full color): $16.95
Special Digital Package Price: eBook PLUS MP3
Order Digital Package
(eBook and MP3): $24.95
Save $8.95 over indiv. price
Classes & Workshops
Learn about Weaving a Life's personalized distance-learning classes, from my studio to yours.
Weaving Circle Leadership Certification Training Become certified to teach Weaving a Life with your own Weaving Circles, in classes and workshops, hospitals, organizations, and classrooms. Add Circle Leadership skills to your professional practice
Meet some of the Circle Leadership graduates, and find out how they are bringing Weaving a Life to their world.
Apply for Weaving Circle Leader Training incredibly rich and deeply effective distance training. Move through the Weaving a Life process one on one with Weaving a Life founder and author Susan Barrett Merrill, using the Weaving a Life keyforms, guided visualizations and the book ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life.
NEW! Download ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life as an eBook and save $10 off the price of the softcover. Save by being green! Sold through Digital River's SWReg at $14.95.
Life Stories from Weaving a Life >
The Journey Loom™
"Merrill gives us a stunning book...calmly blasting walls between life and art the way Cameron did in The Artist's Way, or Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones. So honestly written, so packed with wisdom..." --Daniela Kuper, author of Hunger and Thirst
More praise for ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life from writers, painters and fiber artists
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Our online store has been carefully design to make it easy to purchase online. Everything is clear, checkout is easy, and you can add a comment to your purchase, or send a gift to someone with your note handwritten by us. Find looms, books and media, kits, downloads and gift cards.
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Journey Loom
Portable wooden loom with cloth case makes weaving as easy as knitting. Take it anywhere!
ZATI The Art of Weaving a Life
By Susan Barrett Merrill. Softcover. Weaving as means and metaphor for living a conscious life. 144p, color, includes 7 weaving patterns.
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