Weaving, Spinning and Fiber Arts

Anybody else do any fiber arts, especially weaving or spinning? (Probably not, but it's worth a try.)

Weaving was such an important part of everyone's lives before the spread of power looms. There's myth, lore and tradition associated with looms and weaving in every part of the world. Spinning, too. (And since it took significantly longer to invent a way to mass-produce yarn and thread than weave, so people spun for until even later, as part of a piecework system.)

But every time I google around for stuff on paganism/polytheism and weaving, what I get is weaving used strictly metaphorically, with occasional mention of wheat weaving or some other type of craft that isn't weaving cloth. Spinning is much the same.

Weaving is so very easy, and while a floor loom is very expensive indeed, frame looms -- down to things like plastic potholder looms -- can be extremely cheap, and things like weaving cards and backstraps are very cheap, too. Many kinds are very easy to build yourself. You can even make one out of the back of a cereal box. You can make a spindle out of a wooden toy wheel and a bit of dowel, or an old scratched-up cd and bit of dowel.

Occasionally, I run into other pagan-types in craft spaces, like Ravelry, but we don't often talk about how weaving and spinning related to magic and religion.

It makes me feel a bit lonely.