| Type | Cottage |
|---|---|
| Located in | The Middle, Prythian |
| Head | The Weaver / Stryga |
| Appears in | A Court of Mist and Fury (2016), A Court of Wings and Ruin (2017) |
Contents
Location
The Weaver’s cottage is situated deep within the Middle, the ancient and dangerous region that separates the territories of Prythian’s courts. The area is remote, densely wooded, and largely avoided due to the creatures that inhabit it. The cottage itself stands alone in a small clearing, accessible only by moving through the dense woods.
Description
The Weaver’s cottage is a small, whitewashed structure with a thatched roof and a half-crumbling chimney. It appears simple and almost mortal, with a well beside the door and a woodpile beneath one of its round windows. No light, sound, or smoke comes from within, and the surrounding trees grow so close that their branches nearly touch the roof. Moss-covered ground leads up to the front entrance.
The interior consists of a single large room with a small closed door at the back. Floor-to-ceiling shelves line the walls, filled with assorted objects such as books, shells, dolls, herbs, pottery, shoes, crystals, and jewelry. Chains, dead birds, dresses, ribbons, twisted wood, and strands of pearls hang from the rafters.
A large, cracked spinning wheel sits in the center, backed by shelves stacked with cones of thread in various colors and textures. Nearby shelves hold woven fabric made from the body parts of the Weaver’s victims. A massive loom, mostly hidden in the shadows near the hearth, is used to create these threads and textiles.
Among the items on one shelf—beside an old letter knife, leather-bound books, acorns, and a tarnished crown—was the ring Feyre was sent to retrieve. During her escape, Feyre climbed through the chimney and discovered the cottage’s roof was not thatched with hay, but with hair.
Relevance
Before the events of the series, Stryga—the Weaver—arrived in the lands now known as Prythian with her brothers, the Bone Carver and Koschei. The Fae of that era regarded them as Old Gods. After the three unleashed a reign of terror, an ancient female Fae subdued Stryga’s power and confined her to the cottage in the Middle, while the Bone Carver was imprisoned in the Prison and Koschei was bound to a lake on the Continent.
In A Court of Mist and Fury, Rhysand sends Feyre to the Weaver’s cottage to test her tracking abilities. Inside, Feyre discovers shelves crowded with various objects and sees the Weaver spinning at her wheel. She locates a ring belonging to Rhysand, but taking it alerts the Weaver, who seals the cottage. Feyre escapes by breaking through the chimney and climbing onto the roof, where she realizes the roof is made of human hair and the walls of bone and fat.
In A Court of Wings and Ruin, Rhysand asks Helion to negotiate with Stryga for assistance in the war against Hybern, and she agrees in exchange for her eventual release. Later, Feyre encounters Ianthe and Hybern soldiers near the cottage and traps them inside. The Weaver kills and consumes them, keeping Ianthe’s circlet as her prize.
