Nightloom Shadow Weavers — Moth Fantasy Characters Reference Sheet

The story of Nightloom Shadow Weavers

A fictional story inspired by the artwork.

A customer brought the Nightloom weavers a piece of darkness folded inside a handkerchief. She had cut it from the shadow of the tree outside her mother's house. The house would soon be sold, and she hoped the moths could make enough shade for a chair in her new garden.

Under lamplight the scrap stretched long and narrow. At noon it shrank to the size of a coin. The weavers tried silk, linen and spun nettle, but every thread they added cast a shadow of its own. By evening their sample cloth resembled a tangled nest instead of the broad canopy the customer remembered.

The quietest moth asked what she used to do beneath the tree. Mend socks, the woman said. Sometimes her mother read to her. They had always kept a second chair handy for visitors. The moth sketched two chairs facing each other, leaving the space between them empty.

They wove a cloth with open branches and stitched the scrap into one corner. Hung above the two chairs, the branches threw moving patterns over both seats. A neighbor stopped outside the new garden and remarked that the light looked remarkably good for reading. The customer found another book. By sunset she had forgotten which shadow came from the old tree.

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