Does anyone know anything about the weavers?

The Cathars are perhaps the best known of the gnostic groups. Bernardo Gui the inquisitor said of them;

In the first place, they usually say of themselves that they are good Christians, who do not swear, or lie, or speak evil of others; that they do not kill any man or animal, nor anything having the breath of life, and that they hold the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ and his gospel as the apostles taught. They assert that they occupy the place of the apostles, and that, on account of the above-mentioned things, they of the Roman Church, namely the prelates, clerks, and monks, and especially the inquisitors of heresy persecute them and call them heretics, although they are good men and good Christians, and that they are persecuted just as Christ and his apostles were by the Pharisees.

Moreover they talk to the laity of the evil lives of the clerks and prelates of the Roman Church, pointing out and setting forth their pride, cupidity, avarice, and uncleanness of life, and such other evils as they know. They invoke with their own interpretation and according to their abilities the authority of the Gospels and the Epistles against the condition of the prelates, churchmen, and monks, whom they call Pharisees and false prophets, who say, but do no.

Then they attack and vituperate, in turn, all the sacraments of the Church, especially the sacrament of the Eucharist, saying that it cannot contain the body of Christ, for had this been as great as the largest mountain Christians would have entirely consumed it before this.

Of baptism, they assert that the water is material and corruptible and is therefore the creation of the evil power, and cannot sanctify the soul, but that the churchmen sell this water out of avarice, just as they sell earth for the burial of the dead, and oil to the sick when they anoint them, and as: they sell the confession of sins as made to the priests.

Moreover they read from the Gospels and the Epistles in the vulgar tongue [non-Latin e.g. French or German or English...], applying and expounding them in their favor and against the condition of the Roman Church in a manner which it would take too long to describe in detail;

Here are some informative links;

http://www.cathar.info/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathars

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/gnosis/le...

http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/cathy11.htm

The Cathars were a gnostic movement in the middle ages and were all killed (like the Templars) by the catholic church. However, the French kings demanded to do this. A big mistake of both was the elitism and arrogance which laid the evolutional basis to be defeated, although their spiritual knowledge was much higher than that of the catholics.