About Heksedans

Welcome to Heksedans

My name is Mary... a textile and fiber artist, and a pyrographer... rooted in the mist-laced wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where ancient forests whisper their stories into every thread and flame.

I'm a wildcrafted soul with ink-stained fingers and a heart stitched in runes.

An animist shaper of thread and flame with the hands of a Listamaðr and the spirit of a Seely Wight, I craft more than objects — I conjure stories that breathe. From ritual pipes carved in reverence to antler pendants etched with ancestral symbols, my work... whether it be embroidery, needle felting, nålbinding, sewing, or pyrography... dances between the rooted and the otherworldly. I walk between veils — one eye open to the hidden ones, and a mind expanded by encounters not easily explained but deeply felt. Rooted in ancient soil and stretching into cosmic skies, I’m fiercely independent, alchemizing craft, spirit, and future with every thread, flame, and whisper of the old ways.

My hands carry the memory of a lifetime spent in creation...  shaped by both formal study and instinct. I hold a Holistic Health Practitioner Certification with over 1,000 hours of training, and an AA from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. But it is the long path through spirit and soil that has shaped me most...  a journey that led me to Nordic Animism, where I honor the sacred rhythms of nature, the Landvættir, and the ancestral wisdom in root, rock, and bone.

Under the name Heksedans... Danish for Witch Dance... I bring forth ritual tools and story-woven garments that bridge the timeless and the tangible: needle-felted fleece mantles, embroidered spells, wood-burned offerings, and Valhalla Ladders drawn from spirit and saga.

My newest work calls from the hearth of history... period accurate Viking Age and medieval hats sewn entirely by hand using traditional methods, and also shaped through the ancient looping art of nålbinding. Soon, I’ll be offering historically grounded hoods and handbags, all crafted with reverence for the old ways and the souls who walked them before me.

Everything I create is a conversation... between past and present, between land and lore, between what is seen and what is deeply, silently known.