Twined Treasure Baskets

Saturday August 16th

Learn how to make a precious treasure basket using cattails, grasses, daylilies, wild fibers, and other foraged plants. The technique we will focus on is twining, in which two weavers are twined around uprights to create a tightly woven and solid basket. Used by people all over the world, twining is a technique that can be adapted to use with many different long flexible materials. For this class I’ve chosen specific materials that are common and easy to harvest in many different places around the world. Both two and three strand twining will be used and there will be a focus on learning shaping and various rim possibilities. Despite it’s small size it will take the full class to make one, possibly two of these detailed baskets. Everyone’s basket will turn uniquely and will be about 4″ x 5″ x 3″.  Join us for a day of meditative weaving and learning!

Details, dates, info about the weekend are below. If you want to sign up you can click the green button below or email me at katiegroveart@gmail.com

LOCATION

Katie Grove Studios, Old Kings Highway, Stone Ridge NY 12484 (address upon sign up) 

DATE 

Saturday August 16th, 11:00 – 5:00

COST 

$120.00 (includes all materials for the class, plus a bundle of stakes and some weavers to get started making another one at home.)

WHERE TO STAY

If you are traveling to the workshop there are many lovely places to spend the night locally.  The nearest towns to the workshop location are Stone Ridge, High Falls, Accord, Rosendale, and Kerhonksen. There are also motels and hotels in Kingston and New Paltz (both about 20 minutes away)