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Workshops

2021 is my sixth year teaching basketry classes.

In a one day workshop:

We will make a frame basket, traditional to the Roma peoples of Europe. Learn to make hoops, work with the willow, add ribs, make a God's-eye fasten, and shape your frame basket. All students make and take home their own willow frame basket.

In a two-day workshop:

We make a round-base basket, like the one in the picture on the left of this page. Learn to make the slath, two-rod twining, staking up, 3-rod waling, French randing, a waled border, and handles of your choice. Take home a round-base basket to use for the rest of your life and the skills to make more.

Workshop Schedule

July 23, "What is Green Burial?" talk by Mary Lauren Fraser at the Lichen Center, Blue Hill, Maine. See their website for more info and tickets: https://www.lichen.center/calendar/ahsv05yllifptyy6jatbfppupga1ud

July 24-25, 2021, 10am-4pm

Round base workshop at the Lichen Center, Blue Hill, ME.

For more info and to sign up: https://www.lichen.center/calendar/willow-basket-workshop-with-mary-lauren-fraser

July 31-August 1, 2021, 10am-4pm

Frame basketry workshop at the Maine Primitive Skills School, Augusta, ME.

For more info and to sign up: https://primordialskills.com/collections/field-craft/products/basket-making-weekend-augusta-maine

August 21-22, 10am-4pm

Round-base workshop

Sliding scale $160-$200 plus $60 material fee.

Please email me to sign up.

September 4-5, 10am-4pm

Round-base workshop