Beginning Basketry: for first-time & returning students

Make a small bowl-shaped wicker basket and learn some basketry basics. In this workshop students will weave a small basket using hand-dyed and natural reed. Skills taught are 4 by 4 base, twining and a simple trac rim. Students will have a choice of colored reeds. Finished dimensions: 6 ½” diameter, 2” high. Returning students will learn a different base and weaving techniques.

$15 additional material fee to be paid in cash at class.

About the instructor:

About the instructor:
Making things out of fibers has been Kimberley Harding’s passion since she was a child. Until being introduced to basketry by Jackie Abrams and Lois Russell in 2015 and 2016, she primarily worked with textile materials. She joined the Northeast Basketmakers Guild in 2016 and has increased her basketry knowledge from the many wonderful teachers at the annual Gathering, as well as at other basketry events. Now as a sculptural artist she works with a wide variety of materials, though rooted in textile and basketry techniques. She has shown her work throughout the US and recently had a solo show at Maine Audubon in Falmouth. She resides in Portland.

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