1898
The house is built
A family of flax growers builds the farmhouse and a barn for drying flax.
How it began
Agnė Vaitkutė learned to weave from her grandmother in Zarasai and spent twenty years as a teacher in Vilnius, weaving at weekends.
In 2009 she bought an empty farmhouse by the Neris, mended the broken loom she found in its barn and wove her first tablecloth in the old living room.
How we work now
Four weavers work here all year. Two weave linen, one weaves sashes and one embroiders, and all four teach.
We keep the patterns of this valley in a book, and add to it whenever a visitor brings an old sash or towel from home.
