20: Elizabeth Kneafsey: The Wild Wool Shepherdess

Elizabeth Kneafsey, the Wild Wool Shepherdess, creates unique, wild and rugged woven rugs, tanned leather hides and felted sheeprugs with wool harvested from her own flock of organic, heritage breed sheep which conservation graze hay meadows to help support our declining wildlife and improve soil structure. A practitioner of traditional, ancestral skills is now teaching small holders and individuals through workshops and retreats how to bring back value to wool and live more sustainably in harmony and connection with our land, wildlife, waters and Mother Nature.Her first book The Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine Fire is out today from Hay House.Wolves – yes she has a wolf!, dogs, sheep, herons and owls – being in relationship with animals and what it teaches usAnimal symbologyReclaiming access to the landHow she became a shepherdessCrafting with woolThe husband coatAncestral crafts – why they matterMaking her declaration of intention as a child… and a womanBeing a black sheepWriting her bookDreaming a gathering of womenCreating in communityThe challenges of charging for our work and supporting what it takes to create and teachExtended episode –Her adopted Native name and the story of how she was the first white woman in several hundred years to be adopted by that tribeWomen as beaconsMore on ancestorsHow clothing impacts how we are in the worldBooks we mentionedThe Wild Wool Shepherdess: Weave the Ancient Path, Reignite Your Feminine FireThe Witch and the WildwoodWomen who Run with the Wolves Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.