Basketry by Nature

Course Number: ARTS1672

Please note: Previous basketry experience is an asset but is not essential.
The natural environment provides a bounty of interesting material for basketry. Learn to identify, gather, store and prepare a variety of basketry materials found in nature. Some materials will be supplied, but others such as cattails and willow branches, will be gathered during the course. Be prepared to follow the natural path to basketry! A ribbed basket will be constructed using previously gathered grapevine, rush and bindweed. Cattails and a variety of rushes, sedges and grasses that you will gather locally will be used to make a small round twined basket. A trip to cut branches of willow, dogwood or alder will yield enough material to construct a lovely tray. Your final project will be the creation of a coiled basket of either Siberian Iris leaves or pine needles.

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