Name: Polish Asymmetric Basket Workshop at Downton Memorial Hall
Price: 80 GBP
Availability: InStock

Salisbury

Make this stunning harvest basket with&nbsp;a Catalan style base, perfect for foraging, collecting vegetables or flowers. You will enjoy a fun and creative day whilst learning several key weaving techniques and use 2 or 3 different varieties of willow and find out how the willow is grown, processed and harvested. No experience necessary, suitable for beginners or improvers. Please bring your own lunch, refreshments are included. &nbsp; &nbsp;<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-right: calc(96%); width: 4%; margin-left: calc(5%); border: none; border-collapse: collapse; empty-cells: show; max-width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box;" width="100%" fr-original-style="margin-right: calc(96%); width: 4%; margin-left: calc(5%);"><tbody fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td fr-original-style="" style="min-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: text; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"> </td></tr></tbody></table>

Make this stunning Garden Trug with a Catalan style base, perfect for foraging, collecting vegetables or flowers. You will enjoy a fun and creative day whilst learning several key weaving techniques and use 2 or 3 different varieties of willow and find out how the willow is grown, processed and harvested. No experience necessary, suitable for beginners or improvers. Please bring your own lunch, refreshments are included. 





Green Spiral Willow

Willow Weaving

Basket Weaving

Stunning Catalan style harvest basket, no experience necessary just a day of fun and creativity

Garden Trug, at Downton Memorial Hall

General Admission

Create this stunning unusual looking Polish basket with a chunky hazel or birch handle. It&rsquo;s perfect for house plants, dried flowers or even collecting berries and foraging. During the day you will hear about how willow is grown, harvested and processed. You will learn several different weaving techniques. If you have a special piece of wood or driftwood, bring it along for your handle.&nbsp;
The course is suitable for beginners or improvers. Refreshments provided, please bring your own lunch

Create this stunning unusual looking Polish basket with a chunky hazel or birch handle. It’s perfect for house plants, dried flowers or even collecting berries and foraging. During the day you will hear about how willow is grown, harvested and processed. You will learn several different weaving techniques. If you have a special piece of wood or driftwood, bring it along for your handle. 
The course is suitable for beginners or improvers. Refreshments provided, please bring your own lunch

Weaving

Traditional Woodland Crafts & Green Woodworking

Basket Making

Make this unusual Polish basket using English willow. You will be able to choose your own combination of willows making your basket truly individual. During the day you will learn several key weaving techniques and find out how the willow is grown, harvested and processed

The course is suitable for beginners or improvers. Refreshments included. Please bring your own lunch.

Polish Asymmetric Basket Workshop at Downton Memorial Hall

General admission

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Willow star and ball kit. Everything you need to weave a fab willow star and ball! The ball would look great as a garden ornament or place the lights provided in the kit inside and have a year round light feature. The star provides a pop of light on dark winter nights. 
Most people love working with willow once they have had a go. You need a little patience as you do have to soak the willow before starting, but good things come to those who wait!The willow ball you will make can be placed in the garden as an attractive feature or find a home inside year round of as a festive decoration. The kit includes two sets of LED fairy lights on thin wire which can be wrapped around the star or placed within the ball.Our willow kits are an ideal way to get a feel for willow and weaving, as they are simple designs aimed at beginners. Once you have tried weaving willow, you will probably develop a new appreciation for the work that goes into making baskets and other products. The willow in in our kits is very high quality and can be used to make heirloom items. If kept in dry conditions, it will last a lifetime or more.Basketry is widely believed to be the oldest craft in the world, dating back ten to twelve thousand years and predating pottery. It is found in some form in almost every part of the world.What&#39;s in the box?40 x 6ft willow rods 35 x 4ft willow rods1 x plastic soaking tube1 length of Nutscene twine3 x clothes pegs1 x cable tie2 x LED fairy light setSet of instructionsWe use British willow in all our willow kits, our willow is grown in Somerset. We try our best to have as many British products as possible in our kits. Some of the willow is 6 feet long, some is 3 feet long. It is sent out dry and unsoaked. Soaking the willow is pretty straight forward, our instructions will guide you as to what to do.

Willow star and ball kit. Everything you need to weave a fab willow star and ball! The ball would look great as a garden ornament or place the lights provided in the kit inside and have a year round light feature. The star provides a pop of light on dark winter nights. 

Most people love working with willow once they have had a go. You need a little patience as you do have to soak the willow before starting, but good things come to those who wait!
The willow ball you will make can be placed in the garden as an attractive feature or find a home inside year round of as a festive decoration. The kit includes two sets of LED fairy lights on thin wire which can be wrapped around the star or placed within the ball.
Our willow kits are an ideal way to get a feel for willow and weaving, as they are simple designs aimed at beginners. Once you have tried weaving willow, you will probably develop a new appreciation for the work that goes into making baskets and other products. The willow in in our kits is very high quality and can be used to make heirloom items. If kept in dry conditions, it will last a lifetime or more.
Basketry is widely believed to be the oldest craft in the world, dating back ten to twelve thousand years and predating pottery. It is found in some form in almost every part of the world.
What's in the box?
40 x 6ft willow rods 
35 x 4ft willow rods
1 x plastic soaking tube
1 length of Nutscene twine
3 x clothes pegs
1 x cable tie
2 x LED fairy light set
Set of instructions
We use British willow in all our willow kits, our willow is grown in Somerset. We try our best to have as many British products as possible in our kits. Some of the willow is 6 feet long, some is 3 feet long. It is sent out dry and unsoaked. Soaking the willow is pretty straight forward, our instructions will guide you as to what to do.

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Garden Trug, at Downton Memorial Hall

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Polish Asymmetric Basket Workshop at Downton Memorial Hall

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