Join In: A Retreat for Weavers of All Sorts!

We’re delighted to invite you to our next gathering of weavers! Weave Together with Handwoven will be on March 21–25, 2027, at the Heritage Hills Resort in York, Pennsylvania, and you can sign up for it right now.

If you’re not familiar with Weave Together, it’s a retreat designed by and for weavers of all kinds—including aspiring weavers who don’t know where to start. We’ve got a lineup of classes in multiple techniques—and they’re led by wonderful teachers who will be familiar to readers of Handwoven and Easy Weaving with Little Looms.

Classes and Instructors

Tom Knisely will lead a two-day on-loom class about weaving weft-faced two-block rugs. That’s not all—he’ll also lead a one-day session about spicing up huck with color-and-weave in a class that combines demonstration, lecture, and hands-on elements. His classes are always very popular, so you should reserve your spot early!

Véronique Perrot is teaching a three-day class that will help you develop your own sense of color. You’ll design a warp as a color playground, dress your loom, explore how different weft colors transform a piece, and then weave a towel or napkin using your new ideas. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from a master of woven color!

Long Thread Media’s own Angela K. Schneider will be teaching a two-day class about deflected doubleweave—you’ll learn to weave grids that bend into surprisingly organic shapes, then improvise your treadling to make new designs on the fly. She’ll also lead a one-day inkle class exploring techniques inspired by lace.

Sara C. Bixler will teach multi-shaft and rigid-heddle weavers about rag weaving that zigs and zags. If you’ve never woven on an inkle loom (or if your skills have gotten rusty), she has a class that will get you going. And if you fret about your selvedges (who doesn’t?), she wants to help you make them better.

John Mullarkey, tablet weaver extraordinaire, is returning to Weave Together to teach tablet-weaving classes for beginners (make a bracelet or lanyard as you learn!), and for tablet weavers with some experience (learn Coptic diamonds, or try six-hole tablets!). If you’ve been wanting to take up tablet weaving or learn new skills, this could be the right event for you.

Angela Tong is an expert on pin-loom and rigid-heddle weaving, and she’ll be teaching classes in both—as well as techniques to elevate your edges and joins. If you’re familiar with her pin loom video course covering patterns beyond plain weave, you’ve seen what a good teacher (and creative weaver) she is.

Joan Sheridan will teach you how to weave turned krokbragd inkle bands (those sheep are adorable!)—or you can take her rigid-heddle classes in color-and-weave (it looks complex but is easy to weave) and rep weave (for results with a graphic punch).

Know somebody who isn’t a weaver yet but wants to be? We’ve got beginner-friendly classes for pin-loom, multi-shaft, inkle, and tablet weaving. People can walk in to Weave Together without having ever woven so much as a potholder, and walk back out as weavers. (In fact, more than a few attendees have done just that!)

Here are pictures of some Weave Together 2027 classes (click here to view them all):

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Good to Know

What can you expect from Weave Together? Along with three full days of weaving classes, there will be exciting speakers, a marketplace filled with weaving and fiber goodies, and lots of opportunities for community. You’ll be eating alongside your fellow attendees, allowing plenty of time to make new weaving friends—including Handwoven and Little Looms editors. Instructors will stay and eat on-site, so even if you aren’t taking a class with a particular teacher, you can sit next to them at dinner and have a fantastic conversation. It really is a great opportunity to spend quality time with talented weavers.

Worried about logistics? We’ve got you covered! Attendees will stay at the Heritage Hills Resort, and all meals and most classes will take place there. (A few lucky students will head over to the nearby Red Stone Glen Fiber Arts Center for classes and maybe a little shopping, too.) Lodging and all meals are included in the ticket price.

A weaver enjoys a special shopping night at Weave Together 2026. Photo by Lynn Rognsvoog

After you purchase your ticket, your confirmation email will include a link to a form where you can immediately select your classes.

When it comes to looms, we want to balance making it easy for weavers to try new techniques vs giving attendees the ability to take home any of their work in progress. You should plan to bring your own looms if that’s possible, but for those who don’t have looms or who will have travel difficulties bringing them, we’ll help make arrangements to borrow them a limited number of looms. Any loom rental costs are included in the Weave Together price, although a deposit may be required.

Want to learn more about Weave Together 2027, the teachers and their classes, and what you can expect? You can find out everything and purchase your ticket here. Space is limited and classes are first-come, first-served, so don’t delay.

We hope to see you—and weave with you—in Pennsylvania!