The EarthLoom^® Project

The EarthLoom was originated by Susan Barrett Merrill in the early 2000s. Its purpose is to build community by allowing many people to create artwork together, using the very simplest of weaving. Later, Susan worked with her husband Richard to provide resources, training, and even provide EarthLooms to individuals and organizations who share our passion for building community through the arts in the EarthLoom Project.

Now EarthLooms are found all over the world, including in the US and Canada to the UK, Australia, Portugal, and Bermuda. We have officially approved loom builders in the UK and Portugal, so that folks in Europe and the UK can go to them when they want EarthLooms built.

We also sell full plans for building EarthLooms, and a DVD with a film of a wonderful middle school project in Belfast, Maine. The DVD includes an instruction booklet for building EarthLooms of different sizes from logs, the original style of EarthLooms.

In 2019, the founders received trademark registration for the term EarthLoom, to preserve the legacy of the EarthLoom movement.