All Skills Welcome!

You're going to enjoy how this sweet basket comes together in your hands. Made with grapevine (rim), dyed reed, seagrass, and if you wish, cordage you make with day lilies/crocosmia

Finished Basket size is approximately: 8"x5"x2 1/2 "

Materials Fee (to be paid to instructor): $30

Skill Requirements: All levels welcome! 

Materials Provided by Instructor: 

Participant materials/equipment to bring:

• Please Bring a small bucket/container to soak your reed
• Snips/pruners/something strong (I plan to bring some to share)
• Awl
• Old Towel (working with wet reed)

Presenter Bio:

My journey into basketry and weaving started with my favorite Tia’ Cheva. Watching her put such dedication into the things she created with her hands instilled in me the desire to find the discipline to create.

In my work you will see a great emphasis on the use of natural materials gathered to create . The cherry bark I harvest is actually from a small woodlands forester that manages his land and when it’s time to get rid of the wild cherry trees, he calls the basket guild for us to harvest the bark. I’ve also been lucky to harvest my own western red cedar through the guild.

Using tradition with a bit of a twist, I often vary techniques which I have learned from amazing teachers, Margaret Mathewson, Donna Sakamoto Crispin and Polly Sutton to name a few.

Here is a poem which embodies what I feel -used with permission from the author.

Why I Weave Baskets

My Hands.

Birds singing as the cedar creaks in my hands.

The power of design enfolding within my hands.

The strength of the fiber as I weave with my hands.

Audio, Visual, Tactile.

My Hands.

-Sally Ishikawa