To weave has always been the witch’s work, and witch’s work has always threatened the powers that be.”
-Danielle Dulsky
Art: Ancient Mothers Weaving the World by Monica Sjöö
To weave has always been the witch’s work, and witch’s work has always threatened the powers that be.”
-Danielle Dulsky
Art: Ancient Mothers Weaving the World by Monica Sjöö
Of all the professions, official and unofficial, those which allowed women to pass between worlds out of the control of native or marital family seemed to pose the greatest threat to apparent due order.”
Of all the professions, official and unofficial, those which allowed women to pass between worlds out of the control of native or marital family seemed to pose the greatest threat to apparent due order.”
In From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner writes, “Typical meeting places for women alone, like public laundries and spinning rooms, were feared to give rise to slander and intrigue and secret liaisons.
In From the Beast to the Blonde, Marina Warner writes, “Typical meeting places for women alone, like public laundries and spinning rooms, were feared to give rise to slander and intrigue and secret liaisons.
When women gathered to work, as they often would when weaving or spinning, such a gathering was feared by the overculture for its otherworldliness, for its hidden nature where anything could happen outside the watchful eye of male authority.
When women gathered to work, as they often would when weaving or spinning, such a gathering was feared by the overculture for its otherworldliness, for its hidden nature where anything could happen outside the watchful eye of male authority.
Spinning and weaving were good trades, and these women did not need to marry in order to survive.
Spinning and weaving were good trades, and these women did not need to marry in order to survive.