We welcome you to this website, to the hearth fire of our ancestor roundhouse and to this place of wild sanctuary on Dartmoor. We live and work in the heart of the southwest moors, amid the high hills, upland streams and misted valleys. Here we create music albums and concerts, books and paintings, traditional flutes and drums, women’s workshops and instrument making weekends, small festivals and gentle gatherings on our ancient farm. Within these pages you can hear audio samples from our music, wander around recent releases and new publications, find out about our concert and workshop programme, explore our library of films or dip into the archives to see past projects. Our music label Seventh Wave Music pages are marked with a spiral, our publishing house Braided River Books pages are marked with a wing.
We hope you will enjoy your visit to this online roundhouse.
Latest News
Bamboo Cedar Oak
We have the full list of concerts and workshops for the tour by Bamboo Cedar Oak.
This Remembered Earth
The second in our braid of new albums has been released! You can order now on CD or download.
The Creel & the Crock & the Cauldron
Carolyn’s new album is a wild blend of song weavings, spell bindings, soul ballads and comic ditties, all stirred into a magical pot. This album is available now as physical album or download…
Lichenheart
Throughout the winter Nigel has been continuing work on his beautiful new album, LICHENHEART, a deep mythical exploration of the dreamscape of the ancient land. Due for release in summer this year, with the first performance at our midsummer concert…
Braided River Workshops
Carolyn has a new series of single-day workshops for women planned on Dartmoor this summer: The Coracle of Grandmothers. Details and tickets are now available on our events page.
Ancestral organic t-shirts
We now have an ancestral clothing range! Five choices of beautiful climate neutral organic cotton T-shirts inspired by songs and images from our albums, and featuring ancient Scandinavian and Siberian rock carvings. Profit donations to Survival…
Sharing Land & Hearth
You can now find us on Instagram in two places: carolynhillyer.nigelshaw and braidedriver.weaverstrail. We will be posting news updates during the spring so please join us! You can also find many films and livestream recordings on our YouTube channel…
Weavers’ Oracle
The Weavers’ Oracle has become a deeply loved classic work and continues to travel all around the world. Also now available with German, Russian and Slovakian translations. Thanks to everyone who has helped this oracle to fly so far…
The Weavers’ Trail
A women’s soul pilgrimage into ritual landscape, wild shrines and sacred hearth. Our sister website, the Braided River, contains details about Carolyn’s online rolling workshop programme. You are welcome to dip a toe into the this river…