The EarthLoom™ Project

The EarthLoom is a large (9ft or 3m) loom of logs or timbers installed outdoors in a garden, park, playground or woods. Based on the seven-stick loom designed by Weaving a Life, and conceived by Susan Barrett Merrill as a community activity, the first EarthLoom was built at the Common Ground Fair in Union, Maine.

Your EarthLoom may be built by your organization, corporation, school, family, camp, day care, hospital, prison, government agency, nursing home, or in your garden or back yard. EarthLooms and their weavings are a gift of friendship and an inspiration for action.

Local Materials, Local Hearts

EarthLooms may be made with indigenous materials by the hands of those who will weave on them. Weaving together is so powerful-- it is a literal act of weaving together the community. In this simple and ancient art, we connect with others whose fingers have touched the same threads to create the same fabric with the same purpose. It is a deep-rooted bond in the heart that can change the way we define our neighborhood.

The EarthLoom Project is raising funds to help those who wish to build EarthLooms in any locale, and to find related ways to weave the fabric of community. One of our ways to do this is through sales of our delightful DVD, Building and Weaving on the EarthLoom

Contact us to find out how you can be involved.