This introduction to basketry will cover some of the main techniques of contemporary soft-fibre basketry, including coiling, checkweave plaiting, twining, random weave, and looping. You will work with a range of materials, from yarn and paper to cane and foraged fibres.
What’s on
Exhibitions
Saltaire Arts Trail
I will be showing some of my coiled pieces at 30 Helen Street as part of the Saltaire Arts Trail (number 21) over the late May bank holiday weekend. Free entry, open 10am-5pm each day.
Creative Basketry: Foraged Fibres
Over 10 evenings you will learn how to harvest, store and prepare natural fibres to use in cordage, coiling, twining, looping, and random weave, resulting in a collection of samples or finished pieces.
Teaching
Creative Basketry: Foraged Fibres
Over 10 evenings you will learn how to harvest, store and prepare natural fibres to use in cordage, coiling, twining, looping, and random weave, resulting in a collection of samples or finished pieces.
Creative Basketry: Looping
On this six-week evening course at Morley College you will learn several variations of looping, as well as looping around a core, to produce round vessels as well as rectangular pouches.
Plaited basketry
You will learn how to use the versatile technique of plaiting to create different shaped vessels (straight, diagonal and skewed) and different border finishes. You will add colour and texture through the use of overlays, and also learn about hexagonal plaiting, a more open lightweight weaving technique.
