Weaving Workshop - Make A Frame Basket
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Mary's supportive, relaxed teaching style will guide you through the various stages of making your basket. You will gain an understanding of how the willow behaves as you weave and, after the final trimming up, you will have a useful basket you will be proud to take home. You will learn about the simple tools that are used in basketry and some basic weaving patterns that can be applied to a wide range of baskets in the future.
Using Somerset and homegrown willow, this basket is made by creating a frame and then weaving around it. This is one of the earliest forms of basket making, where the shape and size of the basket is dependent on the bent willow ribs that are added first. These baskets are lovely for displaying fruit or for collecting eggs.
What’s Included:
- One-day beginner weaving course
- Guidance from experienced basketmaker Mary Lewis
- Learn various stages of basket making
- Use of Somerset and homegrown willow
- All tools and materials provided
All tools and materials will be provided. Please wear closed toe shoes and clothes that you don't mind getting a bit grubby.
Age restrictions: 16+
| Adult | £95 |
How to get there
Facilities
- Parking
- Refreshments available
- Toilets
- Wheelchair accessible
- WiFi
On the day
- All tools and materials will be provided.
- Please wear closed toe shoes and clothes that you don't mind getting a bit grubby.
- Lunch is not provided so please bring your own or get some from the local High Street.
- There is ample free parking outside the venue.
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You'll be hosted by
Mary Lewis (She/Her)
Mary Lewis is Head of Sustainability at Heritage Crafts. Mary comes from a background steeped in craft. From an early age she could be found in a coracle or on a shave horse and is now a keen basket maker and knitter. Her work experience includes fundraising, project management, and developing accredited training and apprenticeships for coppice crafts. After a few years of yurt life in the South Downs managing the Sustainability Centre, she took up the role of Endangered Crafts Manager, making interventions, raising funds and developing projects to prevent heritage crafts skills and knowledge from becoming extinct. She is also Chair of the Ironbridge Coracle Trust.
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