Rib Basket with Driftwood Handle Workshop
Sun, 25 Aug
|The Creative Community Campus
With Tanya Doty from Heartstone Baskets
Time & Location
25 Aug 2024, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The Creative Community Campus, 159 17th Avenue, Tauranga South, Tauranga 3112, New Zealand
About the event
An arty basket that can sit on the table or be put to use. These baskets are functional and sculptural and once you get the hang of this technique, you’ll be able to make baskets from practically any kind of bendy material. You’ll learn how to attach the handle and all about adding ribs, where and when. We’ll use ivy, rattan and some willow for the frame.
Rib Basket with a Driftwood Handle Workshop
With Tanya Doty from Heartstone Baskets
Sunday, 25th August
The Creative Community Campus
10am - 4pm
$190
All tools and materials supplied.
Tanya Doty has been crafting willow baskets from her workshop in Upper Moutere since her first basket making course with Golden Bay basketmaker Peter Greer in 2008. Largely self taught, she is firmly addicted to basket making and spends most of her days bending bundles of willow sticks into baskets. She enjoys experimenting with other natural fibres such as raupo, pine needles, rattan, and foraged fibres, bringing a contemporary feel to the age old craft of basket making.
“I grow a small amount of basketry willow but demand far out strips supply so when that happens I use rattan cane or use other found materials like ivy, hops, virginia creeper... it’s all just a matter of matching the material to the technique or style of basket that’s being made. I cherish the connection to the earth through the materials and knowing that my hands are keeping ancient crafts alive while making useful sustainable pieces that will last for many years.”
Visit Tanya's website - www.heartstonebaskets.com. And, follow her on Instagram - @heartstonebaskets, and Facebook - Heartstone Baskets
If this workshop is sold out, click HERE to be added to the waitlist.