Basketry

[Limaed]

A lady who lives near me runs basketry courses. I completed a course last year and made a 'Celtic frame basket'. I had a spare weekend recently so booked on another course this time a Hedgerow basket. Here's the results:





Some of the weaving techniques are quite tricky to learn so I was really pleased with the results.

If anybody fancies a go this is her website: http://naturallyuseful.co.uk/

 

[THOaken]

That's really good. Very serviceable. Good work.

 

[Clouston98]

Great work mate! Be great for foraging that!

 

[Harvestman]

I always wanted to try this. That looks great.

 

[TallMikeM]

That looks proper good, something I've always intended to learn.
I've been offered a virtually unlimited amount of willow and hazel (plus we have a fair bit of hazel coppice ourselves) by a friend in return for helping him on his holding. Guess that means this year I will actually have to learn basketry.

 

[John Fenna]

Looking very good - I love making baskets from materials such as brambles ... they are free too!

 

[Limaed]

Thanks guys - we had lots of different colours of willow to chose from and some that had been de-barked. The dark bit in the top middle is some green birch which I think adds a nice bit of texture / variety.

 

[squishy]

That looks great. I have a big pile of willow upstairs that ive been meaning to turn in to an egg basket or two for about a year now.. I might actually get round to it soon...

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[Dreadhead]

nice work i love the feel of woven baskets

 

[crosslandkelly]

Nice work, that's something I would like to try sometime.