5th-10th May 2026
Join Laurie King and Tor Woven on the wild and wonderful Hebridean Island of Eigg as they explore relationships with the land through the craft of foraging and the ancient arts of dyeing, spinning and weaving.
During the five night all-inclusive retreat, we will guide you to each create a textile on a heddle loom from wool we have dyed and spun together.
Our intention is to share with you these old crafts as new skills, so that you may journey home with a beautiful unique textile and a remembered reverence for the incredible natural world which we are woven into.
What’s included
- Five nights of accommodation in a beautiful setting.
- Learn to warp the loom, spin on a drop spindle, card and blend wool, make a natural dye bath and weave with Tor Woven. All materials included.
- Explore your relationship with the more-than-human with Laurie King, including foraging guidance.
- Time in circle to share creative process and inspiration with the group.
- Fully catered – delicious meals, teas and snacks, prepared by a local chef. We can accommodate all dietary requirements, to be confirmed when booking.
- Low group: guide ratio – there are just six guest places on this retreat with two experienced guides.
Meet Tor
Tor is a Weaver and Soul Midwife who lives in awe of the world we as humans are woven into. She has a deep fascination for cycles and seasons both within us and around us. She has uncovered through her years of spinning and weaving a sweet sense of belonging, found through craft and the deep relationship one grows to place, to land, to plant and to animal when working with them so closely to create textiles. She enjoys sharing her practices so that others may find a peaceful slowness in life and remember the wider weaving of us all.
“Born from the loom, each weaving is alive, animate at its core, indigenous to its place. My hands blend and spin yarn with colours lent by plants, and fibres lent by sheep, and weave them into tales of rich encounters and deep inner processes.”
Visit her website.
what LAURIE brings
Laurie lives on Eigg and is a qualified Wilderness Therapeutic Practitioner, bringing practical skills like foraging with softer approaches such as sit spots, mindfulness and nature solos. She is also an artist who works with plants…you can read more about her on the About page.
Itinerary*:
Tuesday – Arrival & Welcome
- Gather before dinner in opening circle to meet and to hear more about the week
Wednesday – Natural Dyes & Foraging
- An introduction into natural dyes and how do they connect us to land and place
- Walk to meet the land and beings of Eigg
- Foraging principles and guidance
- Gather Nettle and Seaweed to make dye baths
- Tea tasting with Nettle (tea mediation)
- Find your sit spot
Thursday – Spinning with Mindfulness
- An introduction to spinning – history and forms of spindle and wheel with Tor
- Carding, blending colours of wool on a drum carder
- Spinning on a drop spindle
- Mindfulness walk
- Storytime – the Norns
Friday– Warping, Weaving & Noticing
- An introduction to warping and weaving
- Learning how to warp the looms
- Storytime- the weaver of the world
- Learning to weave the first threads
- Revisit your sit spot and practise the art of noticing
Saturday – Weaving & Reflecting
- A day to sink fully into the craft of weaving, learning different techniques as we go
- Revisit your sit spot and ask some reflective questions, thinking about what threads we weave into our lives
- Tying the knot and cutting the threads
- Closing circle
Sunday – Farewell
- Farewell breakfast and group reflection
- Free time before the ferry to explore the island
*This itinerary may change slightly to adapt to wild island weather conditions!
BOOKING
£955 (single room): Booking open until 6th April 2025.
(The price difference from the 2025 retreats reflects the extra day and the smaller group size for this retreat).
Crafting and crofting on the isle of Eigg 