Fetū

Mālo lava, I’m Maryann. I have been weaving for more than a decade. What began as something I did with my hands to make sense of things my words couldn’t reach became, first, breastplates — repurposed from my family’s old mats and bags, carrying an energy of armour, protection, and boldness — and then a movement that brought communities across fifteen countries together to hand weave 2.4 million stars.

I am Sāmoan-Australian, based on Quandamooka Country in Brisbane. I believe weaving is one of the most powerful ways women carry culture, connection, and wellbeing forward. In Pacific communities, weaving is not simply craft — it is ceremony. Weaving gives us reason to gather, a wellbeing that’s activated in the moment, a space for stories, talanoa and knowledge to breathe. This is how women have held each other for centuries.

I am also a woman at a turning point. My children are grown. Having moved through the life changing passage of perimenopause — largely underprepared — I find myself rewired and clear. I am the creative I always wanted to be, and I am building the studio I always wanted to exist. Fetū Studio is where that practice lives now — in weaving, in writing, and in the websites I design for people doing work that matters.