The Interwoven Institute is a Cape-based nonprofit organization (status pending) dedicated to reviving our connection to ourselves, each other, and the earth through craft-based practice, exploration, and research. We believe that making things with our hands from the world around us is a pathway towards crafting connection, weaving wholeness, and mending misunderstanding. We offer programs, practices, retreats and slow craft travel experiences to the Cape Cod community and beyond.

About:

Sarah Manion (she/her) is a fiber artist, spiritual ecologist, and Cape Cod native. She has worked globally on the back end of sustainable and ethical fashion production and supply chains on behalf of leading American brands. For many years, she was based in Africa where she worked directly with artisan cooperatives and textile producers including the management of a handbag production facility in Rwanda on behalf of Kate Spade’s On Purpose program. Working side-by-side with global artisans showed her how making things with our hands embodies our innate sense of being interwoven with the world.

She is a student of countless teachers including Thích Nhất Hạnh, Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Abram, Mary Oliver, the Brewster flats, adrienne maree brown, Kate Fletcher, Dr. Larry Ward, her grandmother and aunt (both master knitters), her dog Lari, and all alpacas everywhere. She is an ordained member of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing and holds an M.A. in Nature-Culture Sustainability Studies from the Rhode Island School of Design. Currently, she is the founder and director of The Interwoven Institute. She lives on the ancestral lands of the Wampanoag (Cape Cod, Massachusetts, US) with her partner, her spinning wheel, and all her yarn.

The Interwoven Institute
reclaiming connection through craft

“You are not a crease in the fabric of things, you are the fabric of things.” 
– Bayo Akomolafe