Woven from hand stained core cane. 580mm wide x 420mm deep x 440mm high.

Basketry
For most of our working life we have been weaving functional baskets, repairing cane items, making old style cane furniture and weaving the seats of chairs in various styles. Since closing our shop and moving to the Sunshine Coast, we have been devoting most of our time to the expanding of skills that allow us to create baskets, both beautiful and quirky. Our use of colours, shapes, variety of materials and creative patterns of weave often brings a smile and a conversation with the viewer and the pleasure of creation to the maker.

We make traditional, contemporary, decorative and functional baskets.

Basketry workshops are held regularly at our Tanawha (Sunshine Coast) premises

I think there are many creative people who love baskets. They love them for their functionality, their texture, their appearance and their charm. They love them for the history they bring to mind, from ages past, and the pleasure of personal memories they evoke. We can provide inspiration, and teach techniques, to make the baskets created, full of character and joy, using colour and shape and textures, to make their statement.

Our workshops will teach traditional basketry techniques, and using traditional materials, to create a contemporary or artistic (rather than functional) basket. We teach as a team of 2.

BASKETRY CLASSES / WORKSHOPS:

Please ring Cathie on 0417 617 810 to make a booking.

Each class is one day (9.30am – 4pm) on our (very easy to find) veranda overlooking the Sunshine Coast.

Total cost will be $120 for basketry classes and includes materials for your basket. Extra cane can be purchased if you wish to make a basket at home.

BYO lunch. Tea, coffee and cake provided.

You will learn the basics or improve your skills while making your own basket.

From here you can indulge your new interest and increase your skill further through classes and workshops that involve increasingly complex formal basketry projects

or

Branch out with some Wild Basketry. Bring your ideas for your project, using our guidance and problem solving skill..

Be prepared to work hard to achieve the completion of your basket.

Proposed dates for 2020 are

BEGINNER BASKETRY CLASSES:

Your task is either a beaded fruit basket or a mini basket. Either option will teach you lots of basic skills to launch your basketry career with. You will also make a quick ‘sampler’ that will serve to remind you of the steps you have learned

Sunday 22nd March
Sunday 31st May
Sunday 19th July
Saturday 12th September
Saturday 21st November

INTERMEDIATE OR WILD CLASSES:

Some basketry experience is needed. We will tackle a shopping basket. Alternatively, accordingly to interest, we can make a wild basket. Bring along an idea and we can try it out. It can include materials such as vines, grasses, and knots of wood, in fact anything that you can weave with or onto.

Sunday 29th March
Sunday 7th June
Sunday 26th July
Saturday 19th September
Sunday 29th November

HEN BASKET:

Carry your favourite hen or some eggs in a hen basket, very popular but we might not finish in a day. You must have some experience before you try this one.

Sunday 21st June

Sunday 18th October

HAND WEAVING:

Cost will be $210 for a 1 day class. (3 to 4 participants only) creating a hand woven seating on a sample board. Your own chair seats will be supported in follow up short visits.

Sunday 5th April
Sunday 14th June
Sunday 23rd August