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Awen Weave

A pattern for weaving knowledge, place, and human judgement into coherent living systems.

Open-source · Welsh-rooted · place-hosted

Where to start

  • For curators

    Patient, considered work weaving the knowledge a community holds about itself. If you care about getting it right — not getting it fast — there's a craft to learn here.

    What a curator does

  • For developers

    pip install awen-weave — open source under AGPLv3. Five-part framework: Llys / Craidd / IDRIS / Prawf / Craffter. Build an instance for your place or domain.

    Install + use

  • For commercial use

    Need the framework under proprietary terms? Awen Weave Limited grants commercial licenses for organisations whose deployment can't fit AGPLv3.

    Commercial licensing

In use today

In a converted workshop in Dolgellau, a Raspberry Pi holds the record of every building in the town.

The Dolgellau Town Dataset is Awen Weave's first public instance. A place-hosted, community-operated record of the town — its buildings, histories, and the people and decisions woven around them. Operated by Arloesi Dolgellau Cwmni Buddiant Cymunedol, the Community Interest Company that holds the dataset for the community.

The data lives in Dolgellau. Not in a cloud. Not in Cardiff. In Dolgellau, 200 metres from the buildings it describes.

Read more about Dolgellau Town Dataset

What it's built on

Awen — the Welsh word for the muse, the source of poetic inspiration — is the warp. The long threads strung on the loom before weaving begins: the constitutional principles that don't bend. Contracts as the source of obligation. Humans as the source of judgement. Learning remains advisory.

Weave is the weft. The threads passed across: the relationships, the data, the contested claims, the stories of individual buildings. The weft adapts because reality adapts.

Pull either out and you don't have cloth. The pattern is the relationship between them.

How the framework works · Why it's named in Welsh

Currently

  • awen-weave v0.1.0 live on PyPI — the framework is installable.
  • Dolgellau Town Dataset — Awen Weave's first public instance, operational since May 2026.
  • First commercial conversations in progress.

The framework is Welsh-rooted. The application is wherever the work is.