TAPESTRY OF CARE

An offering to help transmute the weight of your grief into a soft vessel — a blanket, a rug, a scarf, a wall-hanging — that can hold you in your grief.

Let me help you (or your loved one) to transform the literal and figurative fibers of your sorrow, into something that becomes a woven testament to both your immense tangible grief, and your choice to seek aliveness.

To create a physical object that supports you, holds you, is an offering of tenderness and soft strength, a witness of your love, a way of inviting people into your grief without having to explain it in words.

TAPESTRY OF CARE OFFERINGS

  • Invite me to your community and we can design a workshop together that fits your community’s needs. Workshops utilize somatic meditations combined with traditional weaving practices to spiritually, emotionally, and physiologically transmute our grief.

    I also offer workshops regularly in Philly.

  • For blood family + chosen family — You can come to me or I can come to your house / family space. I’ll help you sift through the materials left behind by loss and decide what you want to keep to wear and use, what you want to gift, donate or rehome, and what you want transmuted into a weaving. We’ll move at the pace your family needs to honor / ritualize / linger / release / embrace this time of grief and transition.

    This offering can be a beautiful ritual to incorporate into existing mourning practices, like during shiva or marking shloshim, or a yartzeit, but is available whenever the timing is right for you.

    What do Family Support sessions include? 

    These are designed to fit your family’s needs. In our consultation, I’ll learn more about where your family is in its collective grief journey (I know this is hard, because, trust me, I know family members move through grief at very different paces), what you’re hoping for in working with me and how much stuff you have to sort through. 

    Sessions are custom tailored to be as ritualized and practical as you want and can include:

    • Physically sorting through materials and fabrics of your loved one

    • Somatic meditations and rituals of release and integration

    • Learning to weave and making your own weavings

    • Designing a weaving(s) for me to make for you and your family. 

    Everyone moves through grief at their own pace and I’m here to support your family in honoring the weight of loss and help you shift the weight of your collective and individual grief into a cloth (or cloths) that instead can hold you and your grief. 

  • This offering builds off of Family support but is customizable to an even more granular level, to tend to your grief and its material weight.

    What do One-on-One sessions include? 

    These sessions are designed with only you in mind (or whoever this is gifted to). Sessions are custom tailored to be as ritualized and/or practical as you want + need. Session can include:

    • Physically sorting through materials and fabrics

    • Somatic meditations and rituals of release and integration

    • Learning to weave and weaving your own cloth

    • Designing a weaving for me to make for you. 

    Everyone moves through grief at their own pace and I’m here to support your journey in honoring the weight of loss and help you shift the weight of your grief into a cloth that instead holds you and your grief. 



  • You give me materials and I will weave it into the soft container you desire (i.e. rug, blanket, scarf, wall-hanging, tallit, spiritual cape— something soft to hold you, with love).

This work can take place in four spheres:

Meirav Ong operating a woven loom in a cozy workshop.

Pricing for Weavings + Offerings

WEAVINGS

  • Small 8” x 12”   $180 - $360

    Medium 16” x 24” $450 - $810

    Large 24” x 36” $990 - $1,800

    Custom sizes are available. All sizing is approximate as these are handmade with love.

    Weavings come on a wooden dowel ready for display. Option for custom framing available.

    Pricing does not include cost of shipping.

  • Prayer / Meditation Rug 2’ x 3’ $180 - $360

    Circular Rug 4’ diameter $540 - $800

    Runner 2.5’ x 7’ $540 - $720

    Small 3’x5’ $450 - $648

    Medium 5’x7’ $990 - $1,440

    Large 6’x9’ $3,060 - 4,200

    Super 9’x12’ $3,600 - $5,400

    Custom sizes available. All sizing is approximate as these are handmade with love and imperfections.

    Pricing does not include cost of shipping.

  • Small 18” x 72” $620 - $980

    Medium - 30” x 72” $1,600 - $2,000

    Large - 54” x 72” $3,240 - $3,960

    This offering is supplemented with your choice of wool, cotton or linen to ensure a soft drape in the fabric. Included is a simple carrying pouch.

    Additional options:

    A custom woven carrying bag +$240. 

    Hand-embroidered text for the atara or anywhere else on the tallit / garment +$72.

    As with the wall hangings and rugs, all sizing is approximate as these are handmade with love and imperfections but I try my best to keep sizing as accurate as possible!

    Pricing does not include cost of shipping.

  • Custom weavings are available. Schedule a consultation with me or email me at meirav.ong.studio@gmail.com to commission this gift for you or a loved one.

OFFERINGS

  • Community workshops are customized to fit your community's needs and pricing varies depending upon needs. Schedule a consultation with me or email me at meirav.ong.studio@gmail.com to vision what offering would be best for your community. 

    Looking for existing community offerings? Check out my events page for upcoming community workshops I am hosting.

  • Pricing ranges from $720 - $3600+ depending upon time and amount of sessions (half day / full day / multiple days).

    One day sessions are designed to ritualize / honor / mark / grieve / remember / transmute / weave your grief. To help you move through the fabric that belonged to a loved one who has died. 

    Two or more sessions are encouraged if there is a lot of material to handle and requires more time and spaciousness to sort through with care.

  • Pricing ranges from $360 - $1800+ depending upon time and amount of sessions (half day / full day / multiple days).

    One day sessions are designed to ritualize / honor / mark / grieve / remember / transmute / weave your grief. To help you move through the fabric that belonged to a loved one who has died. 

    Two or more sessions are encouraged if there is a lot of material to handle and requires more time and spaciousness to sort through with care.

  • The rate for (Your) Hands-off is the price of the weaving I weave for you <3

I use a sliding scale payment method to make my offerings more accessible especially for those with less access to wealth while also acknowledging the energy + time I put into these offerings.

How to choose pricing:

Solidarity Rate - This is the lower end of the pricing spectrum, intended for folks with unstable or low income. 

Full Cost Rate - This is the middle of the spectrum, intended for folks with stable average income and financial means.

Redistribution Rate - Paying a rate at the higher end of the pricing spectrum contributes to support my time working with folks with less access to wealth.

  • "I felt a sense of genuine safety, as she invited me to grieve and create."

    “I took Meirav’s grief weaving workshop after my grandpa died, when I was looking for a gentle, tangible, somatic space to process and feel. Meirav’s workshop was exactly that. She brought a depth of kindness and rootedness to her role as teacher and guide. I felt a sense of genuine safety, as she invited me to grieve and create. The experience of ripping and weaving together fabric from my grandpa’s clothes and my own was such a meaningful manifestation of my grief— it’s the love and awe I feel when I consider how I am inextricably intertwined with my ancestors and the utter heartbreak I feel in their absence. It’s all there in the creation of this beautiful object that I can now turn to when I need a bit of comfort and softness.”

    —Brook Chambers, workshop participant

  • "It is obvious that connecting individuals to grief as an experience with meaning, dimension and relevance is a passion..."

    "It was a joy to be with Meirav. She is talented, knowledgeable, intuitive and open. It is obvious that connecting individuals to grief as an experience with meaning, dimension and relevance is a passion...and such important work."

    —H.Z. workshop participant

  • "The workshop with Meirav was heart-opening and mind-opening"

    "The workshop with Meirav was heart-opening and mind-opening. The tactile experience of working with clay was both playful and tender. Our conversations were inquisitive and sensitive. I appreciate her work and her intention to allow grief to be a presence in our lives.”

    —J.R. workshop participant

Grief doesn’t have to be isolating, even when it can’t be put into words. It can be held without words. You can gift this to yourself, or you can gift this to a loved one as a way of saying, “I see you, I love you, and you are not alone.”

Be in touch

Before any weaving, making, or gathering, we’ll start with a conversation to listen, to ask each other questions, to feel into what kind of support might be right for you.

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