Announcements

On our current plan, we will be removing from or incorporating into the Next Generation edition every single supplement that we currently sell. In the future, there will be no more wading through fifteen or twenty supplement options in the store! You will still be able to buy these separately “off-menu” if you wish, but you’ll need to contact us with a special request. The same goes for all editions of the curriculum up to the Next Generation edition.

Within the next few weeks, we will release a new Buying Guide that will replace the old Shop. When we do this, your download pages links (Year One, Year Two, Year Three, and Year Four) will move to your Account page and will no longer be available through the main menu. You will need to go through your Account page to get to them.

With these changes coming up in by the end of the month (or quite a bit sooner: we are in final stages of construction now), your shopping and downloading experiences are about to change. If you’d like to get your ordering and downloading completed before these changes occur, we strongly recommend purchasing what you need for this year as soon as possible and downloading everything you currently own from the website into your Digify account if you haven’t already done so. You will be able to access them there even after they leave the website.

If it’s not feasible for you to do your purchasing and downloading this month, remember that we offer free services to send you your documents or even create and invoice you for an order based on your shopping list, so you don’t have to do your shopping and downloading now unless you want to 1) do it yourself, and 2) do it through the pages you are used to using. At the same time, please note that after 2026, we will charge a modest fee for sending you files that are no longer linked on the website.

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In the summer of 2025, we shifted to a new PDF delivery system that allows us to store our documents in a super-secure location and make sure you can always access them. This system, called Digify, will watermark your files upon request and also keep a searchable directory of the files downloaded in your own Digify account. As a result, we have been able to…

• Dramatically lower the number of website outages due to high traffic and high download volumes
• Have a backup system for sending files as a convenience to you or in a website emergency
• Have better security and tracking for file downloads (to prevent bot exploitation of our systems)
• Give you a searchable “archive” of your very own so that you can go back to see the files you’ve downloaded and quickly re-download from Digify at will.

30% Off Print Primer Package

Many have asked, “Does it make any sense to buy Primer this year if I plan to buy the new edition of Tapestry of Grace for my Lower Grammar students in the future?”  Our best answer so far is “Yes, we think so.”  The next edition will offer products that cover many different aspects of the existing Primer (parent-level overview of history for each week, student-level activities for each week, reading lists, topical threads, etc.), but it will also quadruple the amount of material found in Primer from 36 weeks to 144 weeks.  Therefore, if you choose to try Primer this year, you will still receive a good sampler of Tapestry of Grace topics at Lower Grammar levels, plus an introduction to Tapestry learning rhythms.  To make this easier on your budget, we are doing a big sale on our remaining Print Primer packages.  We have about 100 copies left, and when the printed books are gone, this sale is over!  (NOTE: You will still be able to purchase Digital Primer packages right up until the release of the next edition.)

60% Off Dialectic Literature Stitches

This sale is designed to make it easy for you to purchase any complete year of Dialectic Literature Stitches for the same price you would pay to buy Year 1 Literature Studies for Young Adults product. This sale will be good until the Next Generation Dialectic Literature Spools are released.

Printout Options: Since summer of 2023, we have been thinking about printing options as ink and papers prices continue to climb.  Unfortunately, despite exploring and pricing a variety of options, we find there are no solutions that would allow us to keep our current prices as they are.  Also, it turns out that only a small fraction of our customers are ordering printouts. Therefore, we have decided to pause our printing options for the 2024 season and work directly with our customers to find the least expensive solutions for them. We have also formed an agreement with Humble Heart Press, a printing solution by homeschoolers and for homeschoolers, so that our customers can be sure of at least one high-quality option for their printout needs.  If you would like to learn more about them or discuss printing options with us, please open a ticket on our website and let us know! 

• Booklists: You can find our Booklists on your Loom if you have already purchased, but if you are just browsing, you can find all the books available on Amazon grouped by Year, Level, and Subject at our Amazon Store.
  
  
• Paying with a Credit Card: We have added an article to our Knowledge Base to help guide you through the process of paying for Tapestry products with a credit card or debit card! 
  

• Phone Options: Please contact us using the small yellow “Help” button in the bottom right corner of any page on our website.  There, you can now open a ticket to schedule a phone call or even an online meeting!  
  

• Work/Study Program: If you have skills that we can use, and are able to offer sufficient time to offset the investment of training, we would be delighted to consider an exchange of brand-new curriculum for labor.  (For any in need who cannot offer labor, please know that we continue to offer our Scholarship Program just as before!)  You can use this program to earn any product we sell, including upgrades to the next edition.  At present, we are actively seeking book reviews.  Here are a few examples that we received recently from members of our TOG community:
  • God King by Joanne Williamson:Daughter’s reason: “The book taught about friendship no matter how different the people were; it was suspenseful; and Taharka set aside his godly position and rescued the man from the crocodile and then that man ended up saving Taharka in the end by acknowledging that he was the real god king.”Mom’s reason: I thoroughly enjoy the fictional approach to teaching history for this age. It was very easy to engage her attention (and keep it!) and we actually finished the book before scheduled because neither of us could wait to know what happened next! I also really value Williamson’s level of detail and care to historical facts and features of the time. The story helps us truly imagine what life may have been like for the different characters and their class status. Very well written!
  • Twice Freed by Patricia St John: We just finished reading this book in our Upper Grammar Literature class. Such a great book to discuss with upper grammar students. Not only does the book help connect the book of Acts to life under Roman rule, but it also has so much you can discuss about the characters’ thoughts and actions. The book highlights themes of freedom and forgiveness and helped our students think about the changing work on the gospel. Looking forward to reading this again when my younger kids are in Upper Grammar. 

• School Choice: Did you catch the news about school choice?  We are now approved on ClassWallet for both New Hampshire and Arizona, and we are working towards more states.  To become an approved vendor in any state, we need our customers in that states to send a request to ClassWallet so that we will be added as a vendor.  If that happens, you should be able to use tax dollars to purchase TOG products!  School choice is only becoming more of a thing, so even if your state does not offer school choice options now, it may do so soon!  This independent website, EdChoice, can tell you about the options in your state.   

• Teacher Training Resources: If you look on the Tapestry University page (just scroll to the bottom of the homepage and look on the right), you will see all our teacher training resources neatly lined up and free to all comers.  Some of them will also be added to the Planning page.  A few need revisions to reflect the new interface, so we will gradually be working on those as well.  Thank you to those on Facebook who brought up this suggestion!  We can’t afford to make a habit of permanently free products, of course, but in this case I think it is the right answer!  

• Fee for Late Upgrade from Locklizard: Over the last two years, we have been glad to bear the costs of free upgrades from Locklizard for all comers!  However, now that we have lost access to our Locklizard licenses and records, it is more difficult and time consuming for our staff to look up latecomers’ records and help them make the transition.  The good news is that it can still be done!  The bad news is that we will now charge a $15 “Lookup Fee” for an upgrade from Locklizard to our new watermarking system.  If you have not yet transitioned, click here to learn more about this process, or simply use keyword “great transition” or “account” to search for articles in our Help button knowledge base!
  
• Primary Sources for Eyewitness History: I found an interesting website full of eyewitness accounts from various moments in history.  I don’t want to share it directly to the Online Warp because it is the kind of site that parents or teachers should preview first, but I was quite excited to stumble across it, and I look forward to using many of these tidbits in upcoming products!  Let me give you just one morsel from the site—did you know Michelangelo spend so much time staring at the Pope’s Sistine Chapel ceiling (over the course of twenty months of work) that it took his eyes a while afterwards to adjust to reading letters, etc., while looking down at them?  Crazy!  If this sounds like a site you can use, please have a look!  
  
• No Red Ink: I also wanted to tell you about one of my favorite free language arts sites: No Red Ink.  I use this all the time with various students to practice English grammar.  If you want to use history-based grammar that is designed to go with Tapestry of Grace, I’d invite you to consider Tapestry’s English Grammar program, but if you are just looking for a little free practice, No Red Ink is my favorite go-to for that kind of help. 

Big Story Game  

If you own digital versions of any of these products, don’t worry!  They will always be available to you as downloads via your account (at bare minimum), and most (if not all) will be available via sections of TOGO that will only be visible to owners of these products.  Also, be assured that we are not retiring these products because we don’t love them as much as you do!  Rather, we love them so much that we are integrating them into the next editions of our main curricula.  That’s right: you’ll have all the useful content we can find from these seven products incorporated into our core products and supplements in the next edition! 

You will hear more details about the future of each product and the transition of content to new places in the next edition in future newsletters, so keep an eye out! 

Finally, one important note: we have a few copies of the print version of Primer left, and after that we will only be selling digital versions until the next edition is released.  Therefore, if you (or a friend) really, really wants a print package copy of Primer, grab it soon!  The same applies to printed copies of Poetics (digital versions will continue to be available up to the release of the next edition at least). 

Retiring Products: I have a short list of products that we prayerfully expect to be phasing out entirely (in one case) or replacing with a similar product of a different name (in most cases) for the next edition.  They are:

Planning Aids (to be phased out entirely)

Tapestry Primer

Poetics

Literature Studies for Young Adults

Map Aids

state of the next generation edition **

We are preparing a new edition (called the Next Generation edition because it will be quite different from our last twelve Redesign editions). As you know, we release very little information about the design or features of upcoming editions or products in advance, and we only set “prayerful plan” release dates.  We do these things because so many changes occur during the design, production, and beta testing phases, and we don’t want to raise expectations or make promises that we can’t keep! 

Therefore, our prayerful production plan (always subject to change) is to release the first Next Generation Edition products in 2027, but we don’t have any further details or samples or prices available at this time. We will try to provide samples and prices in the fall / winter season of 2026.

Finally, although we don’t yet have prices for the Next Generation, we are going to try to make sure that if you buy the current edition (2020 (Whole Family) / 2021 (Integrated Sets)) in 2026, it won’t hurt you in the future. It is our goal to work out a reasonable method for giving you an “update to Next Generation” option so that you can pay the difference between any current edition you already have (or purchase this year) and what the Next Generation edition includes… if you want to! Remember, you can always sit tight with what you have and not update at all. 🙂

If You Purchased Prior to 2021 or Used the Winter Deal in 2022, 2023, 2024, or 2025: New Edition year-plan updates will be available for free to those who purchased Integrated Tapestry year plans prior to December 31, 2020 or as part of one of our Winter Deal promotions that offered those product upgrades for free. All other purchasers must pay a fee to update to the latest edition.

Work / STudy Program

If you purchased Tapestry materials after December 30th, 2020 and missed our Winter Deals options, you may be wishing you had some way to get an upgrade to the Next Generation edition without having to pay money for it.  Well, wonder no further!  If you would prefer to exchange materials or labor (figured at $15/hr), rather than cash, you can explore any of the following options:

Other: Any idea you’ve had that you would love to contribute… just open a ticket and we’ll have a conversation about it!  We can’t guarantee that we will say “yes,” but we’ll be eager to explore the possibility. 🙂

Student Writing Samples for our Writing Page: We are working to build our library of Writing Samples (samples of student papers completed according to the Writing Aids genres and TOG  writing assignments).

Book Descriptions and Reviews for our Booklist: We need thousands (literally) of book descriptions and reviews for the new Booklist Tool.  These reviews will also help us to select the very best books for the next edition Booklist. 

Product Developers in These Areas of Interest: Greek and Latin vocabulary root lessons or Art appreciation lessons