Bread Basket Willow Weaving Workshop

Name: Bread Basket Willow Weaving Workshop
Start: 2025-09-20T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T16:00:00+01:00
Location: St Anne's Arts & Community Centre

Schedule

Sat Sep 20 2025 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St Anne's Arts & Community Centre | Barnstaple, EN

Tutor: Jane Welsh
On this workshop you will make a useful round basket suitable for bread or fruit.
There will be a variety of natural coloured willow from which you can choose to make your unique basket.
We will use the traditional method to make a base, waled and French randed sides and a rod border.
This course is suitable for beginners.
All materials and tools supplied.
10am-4.30pm.
Tea & Coffee available throughout the day for a small donation.
£60.00
+£10 for materials payable to the tutor on the day.
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PARKING
The closest long term car parks (and the cheapest) can be found at:
Fair View, Barnstaple EX31 1JR
Pilton Causeway, Barnstaple EX32 7AA

About Jane
I have been basket making for 24 years and have been working professionally and running courses for the last 14 years. I feel ardently about protecting the knowledge of our traditional rural crafts that are so much a part of our heritage. I like to get people enthused to work with willow and rush, these versatile, sustainable materials.
My background is in arts and crafts. Having studied art, design and furniture making, worked in traditional timber framing and dabbled in stone masonry and stained glass, I then became hooked on basket making, mainly learning from the much respected Gloucestershire basket maker Sheila Wynter.
In 2022 I won 3rd prize in the Basketry of the Year Award.

Feedback from previous willow weaving workshops.
The setting was beautiful and an ideal space for the workshop. Jane was great and very patient. The lady that welcomed and looked after us was lovely too and regularly came in to see if all was going well and if anyone needed anything.
Second weaving course and just as good as first. Jane is an excellent tutor and the whole group ended up with a basket to be proud of. Course has inspired me to take up weaving more seriously.