The Global Star Weaving Movement

13/10/2025

✨Update

The journey of weaving stars through One Billion Stars has always meant more than being crafty with ribbon 🎉 It’s been about people — hands reaching across cultures, hearts finding calm &joy through creativity, and communities remembering what hope feels like when we make it together. 💛

As this global star-weaving movement continues, I’m weaving a new chapter online at www.damperandfetu.com, sharing creative wellbeing, weaving tutorials, and reflections on art, leadership, and life. 🌿 will remain as a legacy gallery — a record of hands, hearts and stories from across the globe.

🌏 I’ll now be focussing my energy on World Star Weaving Day each 2 December — a global celebration of creativity, courage, and connection. I’ll be sharing workshop details and ways to get involved very soon. 💫

As I pour through all the photos, messages, and memories — from local weaving circles, weaving abroad, to moments shared with incredible humans like & so many more, being awarded Redlands Coast Citizen of the Year 2019 - I’m filled with deep gratitude for everyone who has ever picked up ribbon or woven beside me.

Thank you, truly, for being part of this story. The light we’ve created together is everlasting — and it’s guiding the way forward to an exciting and meaningful new chapter.

✨ Stay tuned for details for a World Star Weaving Day workshop with me soon 💖

Love & light, always x

04/04/2024

🔗Download our FREE One Billion Stars story…..

A beautiful visual document on what the One Billion Stars project is and how easy it is to get involved.

Email it to your work colleagues, your friends and family and share, share, share ❤️✨

I even put together a quick DIY guide on how to make a star weaving kit with EXTRAS 🙌🏽

✨ I share the exact measurements on how long ribbon strands should be for star weaving and how many rolls you need

✨ Some cool tips on how to set up your ribbon prep and star weaving space

✨ A poster for future Star weaving workshops

✨ A personal message from me saying “Welcome and Thank you” for weaving stars with us

✨ Plus instructions on how to make a lei and a Star Planner calendar to map out your Star weaving workshops.

🔗 link in bio.

Let me know what you think and happy Star weaving 🙌🏽❤️

22/03/2024

Hello Star Weavers, sending a little reminder that you are amazing.

Trust yourself and keep going on your path.

Cheering for you.

Love and light,
Maryann

13/11/2023

How are you celebrating the 16 Days of Activism at the end of this month?

The global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is a key international moment to call for an end to violence against women and girls. It runs from 25th November (the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) until 10th December, Human Rights Day.

Get together with friends and star weave with your local communities to raise awareness or join us for a fun Star Weaving workshop on Saturday 25 Nov at the Redlands Centre for Women Cleveland QLD. 12pm - 2pm. $70. Bring your favourite drink and we’ll supply snacks and materials.

It’s World Star Weaving Day on Saturday 2 December too so there are lots of opportunities to create weaving spaces for people to come together 🩵

Learn to weave an 8 pointed star, to celebrate 16 Days of Activism & as part of the One Billion Stars project. Redlands Centre for Women. Onsite parking and wheelchair accessible.

04/07/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZ67eO2sl4

Hi everyone, I'm in the processing of updating a few things, including my star weaving tutorial.

Please share and happy weaving.

Be well.

Maryann x

Learn how to weave an 8 pointed star with Samoan-Australian weaving artist Maryann Talia Pau. This weaving tutorial is ideal for those who have some experien...

23/06/2023

Check out our PDF of star weaving instructions.

Click on the link below, download and off you go!

Happy Star weaving.

Download our PDF of star weaving instructions that also come with our star weaving kits. Happy Star Weaving!

06/04/2023

Excited to share our NAIDOC & Reconciliation Week Star Weaving kits. It's just around the corner so make sure you get in quick.

Each 100 star weaving kit comes with materials, stickers a link to download & print our PDF of instructions + postcards & stickers to pass on to others or stick on your fridge.

Perfect for your classroom, work place or home.

Reconciliation Week is celebrated at the same each year; 27 May to 3 June.

These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey— the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision.

This year's theme is Be A Voice for Generations.

NAIDOC week, 2 - 9 July, is an annual celebration that recognises the history and achievements of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities.

It's one of our families favourite times of the year, where it's a Blak Out in Brisbane and there is lots of love in the air for our communities and cultures.

This year's theme is For our Elders.

Our kits are available now, so go get em!

www.onebillionstars.net/shop

04/04/2023

“Do I need to be a star weaver to be part of the One Billion Stars project?”

I get asked this question a lot. And my answer is always:

“Absolutely not.”

In fact, there are so many other important roles in the One Billion Stars project that we need people to focus on so that we can achieve one billion stars by 2032.

We encourage everyone to participate, whatever your work, professional background or expertise is. We do not expect people to know all the different statistics around violence or work in the space of domestic violence, counselling or art therapy. If you have that experience or interest, it’s a bonus, but it’s certainly not required to weave stars with us.

You don’t need to be a star weaver to participate or have any experience in craft, art or weaving.

Learn how to get involved at www.onebillionstars.net and read my latest blog outlining 5 non star weaving ways that you can contribute to one billion stars.

27/03/2023

Mental health is something I'm really passionate about.

I love talking about it and doing something about it.

It makes sense to me that building safe and peaceful communities and prioritising mental health are connected and often woven together in our work to weave one billion stars.

Weaving can help us to slow down, process and reconnect with ourselves and our loved ones. Weaving can help us to hold and focus on our personal and community goals because each object we make is a reminder of that value or goal.

Last week I had an online meeting with 2 incredible star weaving leaders who I am also super proud to call my friends, Siobhán McQuillan from Ireland and and Melissa Knight in Austin Texas.

Every time I jump online with these incredible women, I can't help but get emotional and reinvigorated because of the stories & images they share.

It takes a lot of energy, creativity and patience to lead a project like this and it cannot be possible without the courage and vision of phenomenal women like Siobhán and Melissa.

While our catch ups are mostly about talking strategies and plans for our star weaving communities over the next few months, it is also a crucial time for us to touch base and check in and yes, even have a cry and laugh.

It is a huge relief to know that there is someone like Melissa and Siobhán in your corner who you can download with and who will not judge you when you need a break from the stars because they understand what it takes to organise, lead and curate these complex conversations.

Each of us deserves to have a community or village of people around us who supports our crazy ideas and who believes in us unconditionally. That's what this star weaving community is for me.

Yes, we partake in the gentle ancient craft of star weaving but we are also a fierce community diligently working towards more inclusive, safe and loving communities who values mental health & joy over hate and violence. Always.

To your mental health,
Maryann x

P.S you can read more on my latest blog, "A Star weavers guide to caring for our mental health." www.onebilliosntars.net