The Weft Brothers

Improvisers, repairers, and pattern-hackers. They believe knots are solutions and that living cloth must adapt to living danger.

Goals

• Normalize field repairs and adaptive knotwork
• Win commissions for experimental ships
• Train a new generation in improvisational methods

Assets

• Mobile rigging carts and repair crews
• A library of “fixed wrong” cloth with lessons
• Popular support among crews who survived thanks to a knot

Methods

• Public demos of resilient stitchwork
• Sponsoring daring crews and loud successes
• Whisper campaigns about Warpist rigidity

Relations

• Warpists: rivals who call them heretics
• Fringe Guard: frenemies; saved their lives once, argued ever since
• Market Dyers: allies for new fibers and blends

Leadership & NPCs

• First Weaver Selene (see NPCs): champion of adaptive craft
• Knot-Doc Beru: teaches triage for cloth and crew
• Rigger Mave: famed for a triple-save on a snapped shot