Join Cathie Harper for a day playing with bark. This functional (approximately 4” x 6” x4”) beginner friendly bark and raffia basket is ideally suited to be an open recipe box (or whatever use you want). A special technique will allow you to do a continuous weave yet still produce raven tracks. Uneven pieces of birch bark will add your own personality to your basket. A double layer rim will result in a unique rim and learning two different rim techniques. There will be some discussions on how to prepare bark for a variety of basketry uses.

Materials will be inner western red cedar bark, birch bark, natural raffia and waxed linen.

There maybe some other barks and dyed raffia for use during the workshop to add enhancements. Techniques will include 2-2 twill, twining, continuous and packing weaves. The double rim consists of a simple lashed rim topped by the traditional lash/fold and flip rim.

Tools: Sharp knife and scissors, large eye yarn needle, spray bottle, old towel, bucket large enough to hold the basket. There will be some molds available for use in the workshop.

This workshop is part of Baskets in the Garden.

General Admission to Baskets in the Garden is free.

If you’d like to stay overnight, camping is available on-site. A camping pass ($55) is purchased separately using the following link: https://luma.com/bh23zxht

Location

Studio TK

20129 Township Rd 504, Tofield, AB T0B 4J2, Canada

Presented by

Basket Weaving Events

Learn to bend sticks and build baskets with Freyja Ulveland of Half Moon Baskets.

Hosted By

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Kunst & Cultuur