Rush Hat Weaving Workshop
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
St Anne's Arts & Community Centre | Barnstaple, EN
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Tutor: Jane WelshMake your own Rush Hat, ready for the Spring and Summer sunshine!
We will use checker weave and pairing to make these beautiful and aromatic hats from rush, which has been cut on the Somerset Levels.
Please email [email protected] your head measurements (in centimetres) by Wednesday 4th March, so that Jane can prepare the hat blocks in the correct sizes.
All equipment provided.
Tea & Coffee available throughout the day for a small donation.
10am-5pm
£60.00 +£15 for materials payable to the tutor on the day.
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Box Office: 01805 624624
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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.
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Where is it happening?
St Anne's Arts & Community Centre, Paternoster Row,Barnstaple, Devon, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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