Teaching Days
Explore the heritage craft of basketry through one of the following options…
Experience Day
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Basketry School
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Celebration Weave
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Experience Day ✳︎ Basketry School ✳︎ Celebration Weave ✳︎
Your Options:
Traditional Basketry Experience Day
Learn the process of basketmaking by spending the day making a small round gathering basket from scratch. We work together to build the basket from the base, through the sides to the handle. You get to take home your basket, core basketry skills and hopefully some lovely memories too.
Basketry School
This is a programme of 3-hour sessions running one evening a month over a four month period. Each session focuses on a different area of round basketry, starting with the base, then moving through the wale and uprights, sides, and finally the border and handles. It aims to provide a core foundation to round basketry for the beginner and allows time between sessions to practice and consolidate skills.
Celebration Weave
This is an opportunity to spend time in a unique and celebratory way. It is specifically designed with celebrations in mind, offering a group of up to four people the chance to work together on a shared pice, the result being a large basket that one person gets to take home with them as a lifelong keepsake of time spent together.
“You made our first group crafting experience a thoroughly enjoyable day, we were pleasantly surprised by our finished pieces.”
- First-time Basketmaker