Stowe Basketry Festival
Our Classes
Class Descriptions
Class #1 – Lightening Biscuit
Class #1 - Lightening Biscuit | 2 LEFT This multi-purpose basket will be a striking addition to your basket collection! Ash bases have been electrified by my friend, Mr. Ridgeway, to make each base special and unique. The...
Class #2 – Adagio
Class #2 - Adagio | 5 LEFT Adagio is a smaller oval basket woven with No.4 spokes and No. 2 weavers. The side are woven with Japanese weave using double weavers. The focal point of the basket is the top band of diamond...
Class #3 – Medium Ash Bark Mokok
Class #3 - Medium Ash Bark Mokok The Mokok is a Native American basket style used in the Northeast Woodlands. It is rectangular on the bottom and oval on the top. Students will learn harvesting techniques, how to sew bark...
Class #4 – Summer Tote
Class #4 - Summer Tote This classy tote is woven using reed and dyed Hamburg cane. You begin with an Ash base and weave a semi-double wall design .Colorful wooden beads are attached at the center. A leather strap is woven...
Class #5 – Its A Set Up
Class #5 - Its A Set Up | WITHDRAWN Students will start with a wood base with the spokes pre- glued prior to class. The design is woven with three colors of cotton cord and sueded leather accent between the different...
Class #6 – Salute Double Wine
Class #6 - Salute Double Wine This basket has a unique shaped base that will be weaver-ready for class (spokes glued in). Inside it has a special surprise that you weave in that will keep the wine bottles from touching! It...
Class #7 – Lidded Fairy
Class #7 - Lidded Fairy Fairy size! Students will learn a knotted start, chain and spiral wheat stitches and how to fit a lid! Add a silver or gold pine cone charm to finish the top or select from a variety of knobs,...
Class #8 – Oval Shopper | CLASS FULL
Class #8 - Oval Shopper | CLASS FULL Learn a strong and steady way to build an oval base! Students in this class will work with willow to learn a traditional English underfoot oval base and then weave a functional and...
Class #9 – Ultimate Shaker Trio
Class #9 - Ultimate Shaker Trio | 1 LEFT Create ¼ scale versions of classic Shaker utility baskets. Weave with precisely prepared black ash splint over a wooden mold, lash hardwood rims, and add three different styles of...
Class #10 – Church’s Double Oval
Class #10 - Church’s Double Oval | 6 LEFT This striking basket is double walled – it features many shades of space-dyed red (or green, depending on student choice) reed in various sizes on the inside. The exterior basket is...
Class #11 – Sciob
Class #11 - Sciob | 3 LEFT This classic Irish basket starts with a large round base with a most unusual weave in the middle of the base. A ring of unpeeled willow is included in the weaving. A foot wale is followed by...
Class #12 – Sculptural Seagrass
Class #12 - Sculptural Seagrass | 6 LEFT Students will begin this basket by plaiting a square base of flat reed. The sides are woven with both natural flat oval reed and fragrant seagrass and accented with glass beads....
Class #13 – Ash Bark Purse
Class #13 - Ash Bark Purse This scored and folded one piece bark basket is a worldwide Indigenous container still in use today. Prepare and split spruce roots to sew with, bend and split a red will branch for the inner and...
Class #14 – Christmas Tree
Class #14 - Christmas Tree | 6 LEFT This fun tree is woven over a Styrofoam mold. A 4”ash base is attached to the bottom. Hamburg cane is used as a weaver and 2 spirals are woven in. A clay topper and fused glass and copper...
Class #15 – Confetti
Class #15 - Confetti | WITHDRAWN The experienced waxed linen weaver will have fun weaving this basket. The pattern is a combination of twining, reverse twining and quad twining accent. The unique top is a combination of...
Class #16 – Piggyback Whirls | CLASS FULL
Class #16 - Piggyback Whirls | CLASS FULL This is the first of the Piggyback Series and is woven on an Amish crafted oval base. As students weave, they will be working on shaping, 3 and 4 rod wale, inserting overlays,...
Class #17 – The Chase Is On
Class #17 - The Chase Is On Starting with a one-of-a-kind Alaskan Yellow cedar Burl base (No longer being made, but I have a stash set aside for this class!) Students will learn the joy of coiling with specially prepared...
Class #18 – Small Oriole
Class #18 - Small Oriole This little Oriole basket is for folks who are knowledgeable about ribbed basket construction. Beginning with a small oval and round hoop, students will weave god’s eyes, add primary ribs, and begin...
Class #19 – Zarzo
Class #19 - Zarzo | 1 LEFT A large round willow basket of Spanish origin with a distinctive style! The tray form was originally used by cheese makers for draining cheeses. Ten thick, long rods are set up vertically parallel...
Class #20 – Elm Bark with Sweetgrass | CLASS FULL
Class #20 - Elm Bark with Sweetgrass | CLASS FULL Students begin by weaving a simple twill base on this elegant elm bark and sweetgrass basket. The sides are woven in a Native American technique called between-weave twining...
Class #21 – Japanese Baskets
Class #21 - Japanese Baskets | 3 LEFT Japanese Basketry is a wonderful sampler of five traditional baskets woven with round and flat oval reed or a combination of both. From left to right: Pastry Basket, Flower Basket,...
Class #22 – Ash Box with Applique
Class #22 - Ash Box with Applique The Mokok is a Northeast Woodland Native American style container made of bark stitched with roots. It is round at the top with a square bottom. Peel, prepare and sew with spruce roots....
Class #23 – Twill Ash Bowl
Class #23 - Twill Ash Bowl | 3 LEFT The base and sides of this low cathead bowl are woven in a 2/2 twill with precisely prepared black ash splint over a wooden mold. Darker heartwood stakes contrast with the white sapwood...
Class #24 – Beaded Nantucket
Class #24 - Beaded Nantucket | 2 LEFT This unique basket is woven using a heavy plastic bowl for a mold. There is an arrow design woven using waxed linen. The bead design will be taught and started in class and finished...
Class #25 – Arise
Class #25 - Arise | WITHDRAWN This is a great basket for the newer waxed linen weaver. Students will twine the entire basket with 7 ply waxed linen. This is a great basket to learn ending and starting a row, stacking...
Class #26 – Ocean Breeze
Class #26 - Ocean Breeze This is 3rd in the series using the Piggyback handle. It is woven on a wood base that is Amish made and will have the spokes glued in and weaver ready for class. The challenge of this basket will be...
Class #27 – Haida Bottle
Class #27 - Haida Bottle | 4 LEFT Students will learn traditional Haida weave techniques and designs using finely, hand prepared Alaskan yellow and western red cedar from Thorne Bay, AK. Cobalt blue spray bottles are...
Class #28 – Colorful Cane Twill
Class #28 - Colorful Cane Twill | 3 LEFT This large, beautiful basket is constructed with dyed flat reed for spokes and wide binders cane for weavers. The base has a cat’s head shape, sides round up to be about 11” tall...
Class #29 – Hazelnut | CLASS FULL
Class #29 - Hazelnut | CLASS FULL The hazelnut basket is made with fine peeled willow and is made over a wooden mold. The basket has a small round base (provided). Students continue with the weaving of a foot wale and then...
Class #30 – Black and White Hourglass
Class #30 - Black and White Hourglass | 3 LEFT This class offers many interesting techniques that you can apply to your other baskets as well as unlocking the mystery of weaving diagonal plaited baskets. Using dyed and...
Class #31 – Ash Bark Trinket
Class #31 - Ash Bark Trinket | 8 LEFT A Mokok is a container that is Indigenous to the Northeast Woodlands. It has a rectangular bottom and an oval top. You will sew ash bark with spruce roots that you will peel and...
Class #32 – Quad Medallion
Class #32 - Quad Medallion | 2 LEFT Weave this stunning piece of art with finely prepared black ash splint. The focal point is the quadrafoil twill pattern, woven with brown heartwood stakes and white sapwood weavers. The...
Class #33 – Japanese Blue and White Bowl | CLASS FULL
Class #33 - Japanese Blue and White Bowl | CLASS FULL This lovely basket is woven over a ceramic Japanese bowl. There is a slotted ash base and it is woven using Hamburg cane. Waxed linen is used to lash your navy blue rim....
Class #34 – Arrowhead
Class #34 - Arrowhead | WITHDRAWN This basket inspiration came from another cotton cord basket I designed called Celebration. Instead of stacking the arrows we make them spiral. Students will start with a wood base with the...
Class #35 – Wintery Tote
Class #35 - Wintery Tote Basket is woven on an Amish crafted oval wood base. For class the spokes will be glued in and weaver-ready. You will focus on shaping and the Arrow triple twine. It has custom dyed dusty blue reed...
Class #36 – Beaded Clutch
Class #36 - Beaded Clutch Gorgeous to look at as it is to touch – sensual! Learn an ancient looping technique using your choice of waxed linen colors and hand harvested and prepared Alaskan Yellow Cedar and Western Red...
Class #37 – Big Roundy | CLASS FULL
Class #37 - Big Roundy | CLASS FULL A fun basket for all to make! In this class students will make large baskets with rounded forms out of willow. Built on a 4x4 or 5x5 slath and reverse paired round base, we will create a...
Class #38AM – Polish Bread
Class #38AM - Polish Bread | 4 LEFT This basket is made in willow and is based on the Polish Tatzca basket. It is useful on a table to hold bread. Six groups of rods are woven into a hexagon and then the rods are curved...
Class #38PM – Sciathog
Class #38PM - Sciathog | 4 LEFT This classic Irish potato straining frame basket starts with a prepared and dried hoop. Students will place the first set of ribs using God’s Eye weaving. Randing weave continues from each...
Class #39 – Twill Paths | CLASS FULL
Class #39 - Twill Paths | CLASS FULL This elegant and useful basket will be an enjoyable weaving project for both beginner and intermediate weavers. It has a hardwood base into which students will insert rattan spokes. The...
Class #40 – Alchemy
Class #40 - Alchemy | 5 LEFT Alchemy is loaded with all kinds of techniques. The lower part of the basket is woven with wave weave, then extra spokes are inserted to set the stage for ridge weave at the top. The inner...
Class #41 – Black Diamond | CLASS FULL
Class #41 - Black Diamond | CLASS FULL Weave this charming low cathead bowl of precisely prepared natural and stained black ash splint over a wooden mold. The diamond design in the base, twilled sides, waxed linen rim...
Class #42 – Bejeweled Nantucket
Class #42 - Bejeweled Nantucket | WITHDRAWN This simple Nantucket-style basket is woven over a plastic mold with a 4” ash base. Hamburg cane weavers cover reed spokes. The fun is by using a beaded trim under the rim. Date...
Class #43 – Whiteface
Class #43 - Whiteface| WITHDRAWN A fun basket for the waxed linen lover! The basket is twined with 7 ply waxed linen and accented with a magatamas foot and delica peaks and completed with Linda’s double faced rim. Linda...
Class #44 – Harvest Moon | CLASS FULL
Class #44 - Harvest Moon | CLASS FULL This basket is woven on a square Amish crafted wood base. Spokes will be glued in and weaver-ready for class. Focus will be on shaping and the Arrow triple twine, using double weavers....
A Note About Tools!
Tools needed for each class are noted at the end of each class description. Please make your best effort to make sure that you have what is needed. Tools are available for sharing but it can often slow down class progress.
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