Basket Making with Willow
In this workshop you can have a go at working with willow to make a
round basket. We will explore this creative traditional craft and work
with a variety of different naturally coloured willows to make a beautiful and
useful basket, with or without a handle.
Make a useful and beautiful basket from natural
willow. We will start by making round bases and then learn different weaves as
we work up the sides. You can then add a handle if you choose. Baskets are very
useful and can be used for many jobs including keeping your favourite things
in, gathering, shopping, serving food and of course collecting conkers and
Easter eggs!
There will be different types of
naturally coloured willow from which to make your beautiful, sustainable and
unique basket.
Jane Welsh
About Jane
Jane has been basket making for 23 years and
has been working professionally and running courses for the last 14 years. She
feels ardently about protecting the knowledge of our traditional rural crafts
that are so much a part of our heritage she likes to get people enthused to
work with willow and rush, these versatile, sustainable materials.
Her background is in arts and
crafts. Having studied art, design and furniture making, worked in traditional
timber framing and dabbled in stone masonry and stained glass, she then became
hooked on basket making, mainly learning from the much respected
Gloucestershire basket maker Sheila Wynter.
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