Fiber Arts
Round Willow Gathering Basket
Learn essential techniques of traditional willow-rod weaving with this functional basket.
Tuition Assistance and Other Policies
Meeting Times
- Fri, 5/30/2025 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
- Sat, 5/31/2025 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Fri, 5/30/2025 - Sat, 5/31/2025
Waitlist
About
Weave a round, willow stake and strand basket that incorporates the weaving techniques known as pairing, three rod wale, French rand, five behind two rod border, bow handle, and foot. Some basic knife work as it relates to basketry also is involved. These techniques can be scaled up or down for future baskets. We'll talk a bit about harvesting and curing willow for basket making.
Details
- No experience needed, although some background in weaving/pattern recognition/hand craft is helpful.
- Weaving with willow requires a good amount of strength in the hands and wrists.
Materials
- A $50 materials fee, included in the price of the class, covers all of the materials you'll need to make your basket.
- All the willow for the course is grown and tended by hand in Chimacum.
- You need to bring a sharp, fixed-blade knife (not a pocket/folding knife) and sharp pruning shears.
Class Policies
Ages 14 and up are welcome.
BARN Policies
- View BARN's Cancellation and Refund Policy.
- Tuition Assistance is available. Fill out the application before registering.
- BARN is committed to accessibility. We try to make accommodations when requested; the earlier you contact us, the more likely we can help. Please email accessibility@bainbridgebarn.org to find out more or request an accommodation.
- Sensory Statement: Makerspaces like BARN can be noisy and cluttered, smell strongly, and have bright or flickering lights. BARN is not an allergen-free facility. If you have concerns, please email info@bainbridgebarn.org.
Instructors or Guides
Maureen Hohmann
Mo is devoted to willow and tending the living tradition of basket making as a response to the extractive and sterile overculture and ever-changing needs of the living world. She is a mother, basket maker, multi-disciplinary artist, teacher, reverent farmer, and community deathcare worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels and collaborations she weaves. She learned to make willow baskets in the Coast Range of Oregon, connecting her craft with the life of plants. There she learned about willow, its growing rhythms and patterns, and harvesting and curing of the plant for weaving and teaching others to weave. Mo is a guest on S'Klallam land in rain-shadowed Port Townsend, where cormorants dive and eagles tell glacial memory sky stories with ancestral lines from the west coast of Ireland and Main River lands in Germany.
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