On the Yorkshire coast, Norse and Anglo-Saxon women once wove side by side and set what they knew into the weave itself. The families who inherited that gift can still read it: a hand laid on old linen, and a thousand years opens beneath it.
Someone has spent centuries making sure no one can. The Pattern Masters sit inside the guilds and the museums, keeping a tidier story about where English craft came from, and they have been very good at their work.
The Threadwick Chronicles follow the women who carry the gift, and what it costs them to use it in public.