Stowe Basketry Festival
Our Mission
The Stowe Basketry Festival enjoys a long-standing tradition of exploring all aspects of weaving and this value continues.
The Festival aims to promote the art and craftsmanship of basketry from around the world, to introduce new weavers to the joys and satisfaction of weaving, and challenge more experienced weavers to learn new techniques.
Join us to explore weaving functional but beautiful baskets, jewelry, or sculptural art pieces; the options are always exciting and we look forward to sharing these experiences with you!
Class #2 – Short Ash Bark Quiver
This scored and folded one piece ash bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today.
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Class #3 – Mad Weave Makes You Crazy Mat (2 Days) – 3 SPOTS LEFT
Stretch your brain learning Madweave. Madweave is woven in three directions using a 2 – 1 twill.
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Class #4 – Back and Forth (2 Days)
This striking paper basket is woven from 140lb watercolor paper painted with acrylics and cut into strips with a past...
Class #5 – Pagoda
This lidded Pagoda basket features a 5” woven Cathead base. The basket and lid are accented with grey reed, flat si...
Class #7 – Elm Bark and Black Ash Wall Basket
In this class, the teacher will be bringing harvested elm bark strips for you to learn how to clean, split, and cut w...
Class #8 – Flame Tree Seed Pod
Weavers must be experienced in maintaining a very tight spiral stitch and keeping the gauge consistently full, making...
Class #9 – Merry Blues
This is a fun basket to weave for a gift basket or the holidays. Linda will have the spokes pre-glued in the base pri...
Class #10 – Willow Backpack (2 Days)
This full-size backpack is made of unpeeled willow, starting with a large oval split stick base.
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Class #11 – 5” Round Nantucket
Construct a 5” round Nantucket basket over a class mold using a cherry base, solid rim and handle.
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Class #12 – Long Ash Harvesting Container
This scored and folded one-piece ash bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today.
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Class #13 – Simply Summer
This basket makes a nifty small tote or purse. Using a double-slotted oak wooden base, we will insert stakes and weav...
Class #14 – New Wave Tote
This sturdy, functional slim tote starts with natural flat reed spokes inserted into a racetrack base.
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Class #15 – Vertigo
Vertigo is woven on a laser-engraved cherry base. A Fibonacci twill weaves up the side of the basket.
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Class #16 – Duets and Crosses
Try your hand at a new technique- triple chase weave. After weaving a checker weave bottom with a flat reed, students...
Class #17 – Pine Needle Honey Pot (2 Days)
Participants will be provided a wooden bowl, natural long-leaf pine needles, and waxed Jupean thread to make the bask...
Class #18 – Junior Adirondack Pack Basket
Junior is a small decorative version of a traditional Adirondack Pack basket.
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Class #19 – 10-inch Round Tray
This 10” round tray is woven over a class mold using complete cherry construction and cane weavers.
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Class #20 – Cimmaron
CIMARRON is woven with braid weave using both flat oval and double round reed in three different colors, creating a v...
Class #21 – Ash Bark Mokuk with Applique
A Mokok is a Northeast Woodland Native American-style container made of bark stitched with spruce roots.
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Class #22 – Madweave Mat or Madweave Triangle (2 Days)
Learn to turn corners with Madweave as you create a triangular basket
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Class #23 – Short Paper Cathead Paint and Weave
Weave this small cathead from paper, which you will paint and cut yourself, choosing your own colors and style.
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Class #24 – Storage Savvy
This handy storage basket will find lots of uses in your home. It may be woven in ½” flat reed in over/under weave...
Class #25 – Lola’s Designer Tote
This sturdy tote basket is available in three color schemes, each with a matching leather handle.
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Class #26 – The Berkeley Basket
The Berkeley Basket is woven on a 7×11 inch wooden base, and techniques include twill (start& stop), triple...
Class #27 – Salish Sea Cedar – 3 SPOTS LEFT
Since the 1950s and 60’s, archeologists have found preserved fragments of cedar and spruce baskets at wet sites dat...
Class #28 – Swirling Tray
This little bowl is twined in a spiral pattern with 7 ply waxed linen. The beaded center bud, foot, and peaks complem...
Class #29 – Irish Sciob
This classic Irish potato straining basket, made of unpeeled willow, starts with a large round base with an unusual w...
Class #30 – Small E’Pergne
Weave this two-tiered epergne over class molds using cane staves and weaver and cherry bases, rims, and pedestal.
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Class #31 – Ash Bark Bucket
This scored and folded one piece bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today.
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Class #32 – Gently Rounded
This lovely, tall basket is woven in an over two under one twill pattern using 140lb watercolor paper painted with ac...
Class #33 – Mary Lou
This basket makes a fabulous tote or catchall. Students will learn how to make a solid woven base so items will not f...
Class #34 – Illusions
This footed basket features a unique pattern created by the precise placement of weavers and overlays.
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Class #35 – Bend in the River Tote
Classic tote woven on a wood base with leather handles. Techniques include start and stop twill and paired triple twi...
Class #36 – Oval Picnic Basket
When you make this useful oval basket, you will learn many basic wicker techniques, including working with a Williams...
Class #37 – Pine Needle Cracker Basket
Participants will be provided an elongated, wooden, oval base, artificial sinew, and long leaf pine needles
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Class #38 – Ziggy
This basket’s inspiration came from the racetrack base. I wanted a spiral for the flow going around the track w...
Class #39 – Oval Muffin Basket
This attractive table basket is a good introduction to oval willow work. An oval split-stick base is woven and then s...
Class #40 – 6-inch Hat Box Trinket
his 6” round box is woven over a class mold using complete cherry construction and cane weavers.
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Class #42 – Amara
This basket begins on a 4” round oak base. Students will insert flat oval stakes into the slot following a template...
Class #43 – Lazy Susan
The allure of a spinning basket is undeniable! As it spins, the woven rows create a captivating illusion of waves mov...
Class #44 – Med Blue Twist
Med Blue Twist is woven on a wood base. Techniques include Chase weave, flat reed, triple twining and adding overlays...
Class #45 – Black Ash, Elm Bark & Braided Sweetgrass Basket – SOLD OUT
In 2018, I helped clean out closets and drawers after a dear friend’s passing. I was pleasantly surprised when I fo...
Class #46 – Adornments
The main objective is to cover a plastic ring with thread using the double buttonhole stitch and add three rows of pi...
Class #47 – Roundabout
This is a fun basket for beginner students to learn several basic techniques.
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Class #48 – Scrap Basket
This scap or wastepaper basket, made in buff willow, is a copy of an original Gustav Stickley basket design.
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Class #49 – Small Oval Caddy
Weave this small oval over a class mold using complete walnut construction and cane staves.
...One of the nation’s leading basket weaving festivals, carrying on a proud tradition nearly 30 years old!
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