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- Brigid and Anna Kirsch - Eastbridge Willows [Surrey] map
- Willow growers, specialising in over 70 coloured varieties. We can supply 10 inch sticks or bundles of withies for planting. We also undertake commissions for living willow structures.
- Teaching: We provide courses in willow-related subjects e.g. living willow structures and basic basketry.
- 01252-852562
- www.eastbridgewillows.com
- Janie Hugall [Staffs] map
- Chair and furniture restorations in flat cane
- Teaching: Chair caning beginners
- 01785 664730 07890 130659
- Sally Cole - On the Verge Studio/Workshop [Staffordshire] map
- Century old railway stores with shared workshop recycling textiles, paper, wood, metal, plastics (and willow) and ceramics. Tea/coffee, displays and garden.
- Teaching: Contemporary work using natural materials and textiles, also wire and recyclables. Inspirational classes for all 3D medias - please contact for details.
- 01270 875464 07703 292680
- eskay[at]theverge.fsnet.co.uk
- Ray and Ann Wickham [Sussex] map
- Comms. For rush, seagrass, cane seating and furniture restoration
- Teaching: Cane chair seating
- 01825 722627
- Christine Addley [N.Yorks] map
- Restoration of chairs with cane, rush, seagrass and Danish cord, blind caning, double caning and medallions
- Teaching: All levels seating, cane, rush, sea grass, Danish cord, close caning, double caning, blind caning and medallion work
- 01653-658560
- Angela Cole [N. Yorks] map
- Partner in Yorkshire Hurdles, a coppice craft business. Screens, baskets (frame, freeform), wreaths, platters and sundries made to commission using willow, hedgerow and woodland materials
- Teaching: Experienced leader of arts and crafts workshops for adults and children using willow, hedgerow and woodland materials. Focus on environmental creativity and personal progression. Qualified Forest School Practitioner (outdoor education qualification).
- 01653-618892
- geoff.and.angela[at]ukonline.co.uk
- Jackie Sweet [E. Sussex] map
- Makes, sells and accepts commissions for a wide range of traditional and contemporary baskets. Also garden structures, including obelisks, plant supports, trellis screens, fences, hurdles using willow and hazel but also work with split wood, bark, hedgerow and recycled materials. Accepts commissions for basket repairs.
- Teaching: Runs occasional workshops for children, beginners and intermediates in willow, hedgerow and recycled materials
- 01273-400444
- jackiesweetbaskets[at]hotmail.com
- Jackie Binns [West Sussex] map
- Full time basketmaker. Willow, cane, plastics and found objects. Also repair, commissions, restoration and sculpture. Traditional and contemporary work.
- Teaching: All levels cont. basketry and willow sculpture at West Dean College, Chichester, W.Sussex. Mostly willow 3 days a week at own studio, a maximum of 5 students per day. Traditional, contemporary, birds, animals, willow sculptures for the garden.
- 01903-879315
- jackiebinns[at]tinyonline.co.uk
- Christine Llewellyn [W. Sussex] map
- Produces small, medium and large baskets for the home in willow and hedgerow. Tipis and plant supports in Spring. Play-domes/tunnels in both dry and living willow and hazel. Gives talks, slide presentations, using BA slides, and demonstrates basketmaking at clubs, shows and craft events. Runs own beginners/intermediates basketmaking workshops with many repeat students and occasional one-to-one students.
- Teaching: Organises own beginners and intermediate classes in basketmaking. Tipi making workshops in Spring using locally harvested willow. Also a tutor for adult education weekend workshops run by the County Council.
- 01243-551056
- llewellyn[at]tecres.net
- Jo Mills [Somerset] map
- Makes colourful baskets, especially one-offs and individual commissions, also various plant supports. Mainly uses willow with occasional hedgerow materials.
- Teaching: Teaches beginners and improvers round basketry; also half day adult festive willow and plant supports workshops within 50 mile radius of South Somerset.
- 01460 241886
- jomillsbaskets[at]tiscali.co.uk
- Lorraine Houlden - Rush and Cane [Somerset] map
- Chair seating undertaken in locally harvested rush; also in cane and a wide range of other materials. Restored old childrens' chairs and stools available for sale.
- Teaching: Tuition offered in chair seating to suit individual needs
- 01749-679683
- Shuna Rendel [Oxon] map
- Exhibition work. UK and International. Contemporary one-off sculptural and flexible pieces. Natural materials. For images, see Crafts Council photo store
- Teaching: All levels. Flexible structures - netting and linking techniques. Twining techniques. Mixed materials. Design. Slide lectures.
- 01494 881709
- rendel[at]lineone.net
- Joanna Frost - Cane and Rush Seating [Notts] map
- Chair seater in cane, rush, willow, seagrass and Danish cord chair seats. Local collection available.
- Teaching: Will demonstrate caning and rushing.
- 01773-761391
- Ruth Thompson - Sylvan Skills [Northumberland] map
- I work with schools, art galleries, country parks, museums, nurseries, community groups, gardening groups etc. I am a member of Lapwing Crafts, a not for profit social enterprise teaching crafts.
- Teaching: Qualified to PGCE (Post 16) level. I teach craft days/courses in living willow sculpture, hurdle making, obelisks, border edging, plant protectors etc. Also Xmas decorations, stars, lanterns and simple basketry.
- 01661-842074 and fax
- sylvanskills.co.uk timruth[at]onetel.com
- Mona Leckie [Norfolk] map
- Retail outlet for baskets: chairs finished with rush/cane: supply small quantities of materials
- Teaching: Begs basketry: Cane seating, rush seating
- 01328-863598
- mona[at]englishbaskets.co.uk
- Sue Kirk - Ecological Basketmaker [Northants] map
- Commissions taken for round, oval and square baskets. Traditional and contemporary baskets made from either organically grown willow from our allotments or from top quality Somerset willow grown by Steven Pearce. We sell work at a local farmers market every month.
- Teaching: Willow weaving workshops for beginners and improvers at King's Cliffe Village Hall throughout the year.
- 01780-470-876
- www.suekirkwillowbaskets.co.uk suekirk723[at]btinernet.com
- Robert Summers [Oxfordshire] map
- I do round willow-work with brown willow. I also work with rush - tablemats, pots etc. and chair or stool seating. I make greenwood stools either on a pole-lathe or shaving horse. I would be happy to consider commissions for any of the above and to give personal tuition, although I have no experience in teaching groups.
- 01865 721695
- louiseandbob[at]googlemail.com
- Joni Bamford [Rutland] map
- Baskets & sculpture, mainly contemporary, using willow, rush, bark, paper and cardboard. Bias plaiting and open hexagonal plaiting a speciality.
- Teaching: Willow: beginners & improvers, contemporary - all levels, especially bias plaiting and open hexagonal plaiting in paper, cardboard and Somband.
- 01780-460744
- jonibamf[at]yahoo.co.uk
- Melanie Carroll [Somerset] map
- Baskets sold from stock. Commissions and repair work in willow
- Teaching: Willow baskets for beginners and intermediate
- 01643 863448
- John Excell - The Cane Workshop [Somerset] map
- Seating in cane, rush, cord and seagrass. Suppliers of chair cane, centre cane, rush, seagrass, Danish cord, kooboo, tohiti and manau whole cane, basketmaking and chair seating tools.
- Teaching: Seating in cane and rush and Nantucket baskets
- 01460-281636 and fax
- www.cane-workshop.com
- Brenda Burt [Somerset] map
- Cane seating, seagrass, Danish cord
- Teaching: Beginners to Improvers: cane seating, seagrass, Danish cord: day tuition
- 01460-281636 (day) 01458-273461 (eve)
- beeburt[at]tiscali.co.uk
- Sister Myfanwy Worthing - Cane and Rush Restoration [Shropshire] map
- Cane seating, close cane seating, rush seating, Danish cord seating. Experience in chair backs, rising sun, medallion, with many difficult shapes and sizes, also curved. Restoration of old cane and rush chairs to their original state. Sets welcome. Portfolios of my work before and after.
- 01694 722595
- Ted Bruce [Shropshire] map
- Ted crafts a wide range of strong, attractive, functional baskets from English willow (dog to log; washing to waste; trug to shopping trolley). He maintains a small stock of baskets whilst increasingly working to commission. Enquiries welcome. Available for talks and demonstrations. Member of the Shropshire Guild of Contemporary Craft.
- Teaching: Ted is an experienced and enthusiastic teacher. Traditional techniques using willow are taught to beginners and improvers. He can organise and run a class for a maximum of 8 but prefers teaching at home where he can accommodate 2 students in his workshop
- 01691-622915
- www.tedbrucebaskets.co.uk info[at]tedbrucebaskets.co.uk
- Steve Lowe [Shropshire] map
- Basketmaker using English willow, making a wide range of baskets including shopping baskets, garden trugs, dog/cat beds, picnic/bottle baskets, umbrella stands, log/linen baskets, babies cribs, storage baskets and trays. Baskets can be made to specific sizes, e.g. kitchen baskets etc.
- 01952 595855
- Rosemary Hawksford [N. Yorks] map
- Rush and cane seating and willow baskets made to order
- Teaching: Beginners workshops in willow basketmaking and cane and rush seating. Happy to run group workshops in schools and for young people.
- 01904-651407
- Lois Walpole [France] map
- Public and private commissions for functional or sculptural work. Writing books and articles and curating exhibitions on basket themes.
- Teaching: All levels: all materials, within context of contemporary
- 00 33 (0)5 45 89 63 35
- www.loiswalpole.com lois[at]loiswalpole.com
- Ben Braster [] map
- Organically grown willow, white and brown/willow baskets
- Teaching: Willow all levels
- +31 24-6633062 and Fax +31 6 10707726 (Mob)
- Joan Carrigan [Canada] map
- Full time basketmaker: teaching, exhibiting, and selling work.
- Teaching: Courses offered at beginner and intermediate levels in a wide variety of techniques including twining variations, wickerwork, splint, coiling, frame (rib). Specialisation is in the use of natural materials such as barks, rush, roots, sedge and vines.
- +1 250 538 1877
- www.saltspring.com/jcarrigan jcarrigan[at]saltspring.com
- Bob Gielsager - Kurveslojd [Denmark] map
- I accept commissions on baskets and can supply from stock cradles, creels, dough/raise, fishtraps, hampers, variety of baskets including fruit, laundry, linen, log, open French, salad washer, shoppers and trays. I also produce historical baskets for museums.
- 00 45 98 545410
- www.kurveslojd.dk bo[at]kurveslojd.dk
- Vivian Keenan [New Zealand] map
- Original sculptural art works in willow, rattan core and copper wire using traditional basketmaking techniques. The range of work includes floor lamps, fish traps, quivers, interior and garden sculptures, sails and other miscellaneous art works.
- Teaching: Able to teach group workshops in experimental designs using traditional basketmaking techniques. Also basic fun with flax classes for adults and children using New Zealand phormium.
- +64 9 4290 201
- www.viviankeenan.co.nz
- Lluis Grau Suro [Ourense, Galicia] map
- Traditional split wood and willow baskets from Catalonia, the Pyrenees and Galicia in Spain.
- Teaching: Beginners - Advanced. Spanish basketry forms and techniques. Courses outside Spain by arrangement in advance. Courses and basketry holidays offered at Lluis' holiday cottage 'Casa dos Artesans' in Galicia, NW Spain. Courses can be given in Spanish, English or French.
- +34 988 20 74 04 +34 669 600 620
- www.lluisgrau.com lluisyanna[at]terra.es
- Katherine Lewis [USA] map
- Willow basketmaker and willow grower in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Functional baskets for the home and garden made primarily from our farm grown willow. Commissions welcome. See our website for photo gallery, basket sales, classes, willow cuttings and more.
- Teaching: Willow basketmaking for beginners and intermediate levels. Materials and tools provided.
- 001 360-428-3076
- www.dunbargardens.com baskets[at]dunbargardens.com
- Cathryn Peters - The Wicker Woman [MN 55703] map
- Antique wicker furniture restoration, all kinds of chair caning, hand twisted bulrush and cattail leaf rush, paper fibre rush. Also has National Furniture Repair Directory blog, seatweaving forum. First President of new The Seatweavers' Guild located in the USA, basketry and chair caning instructor, newsletter publisher, writer.
- Teaching: Antler basketweaving, natural hand twisted rush, paper fibre rush and all types of caning.
- +1 218 666 6189
- www.wickerwoman.com cpeters[at]wickerwoman.com
- Jo Campbell-Amsler [USA] map
- Sells willow rib-style baskets, back packs, fishing creels, several purse styles, scultpural forms etc.
- Teaching: Willow rib-style at all levels and a variety of styles from traditional to free-form sculptural
- 001 319 465 5376
- jocamsler[at]hotmail.com
- Jonas Hasselrot [Sweden] map
- Spruce roots (frame baskets): birch roots (coiled work): birch bark (folded and plaited)
- Teaching: Spruce roots (frame baskets): birch roots (coiled work): birch bark (folded and plaited)
- +46 8 550 182 40
- jonas.hasselrot[at]telia.com
- Elaine Burke and Clive Lyttle - Welig Crafts [N. Ireland] map
- The main part of our work comprises willow basketry in both traditional Irish and our own designs sold from our workshop. We work in our own homegrown brown willow. We attend (selected) craft fairs, do demonstrations and exhibit our work. We also produce gardenware, hurdles etc. and install living willow sculpture.
- Teaching: We teach at our own workshop and for other venues. Courses are suitable for beginners and improvers. Working in brown willow we can provide tuition in roundwork, oval, fitching, scalloming, garden structures and willow sculpture. Places on our courses are limited in order to ensure a good tutor pupil ratio.
- 028 4277 1542 07732 600907
- www.weligcrafts.co.uk info[at]weligcrafts.co.uk
- Pippa Scott [Powys] map
- Commissions accepted for willow baskets of all types, also eco-coffins, garden structures, living willow structures and basket repairs.
- Teaching: Willow basketmaking, garden structures and decorative items. Children and adults. Beginners and Improvers
- 01686 420423
- pippa[at]deeppool.fsnet.co.uk
- Judy Hartley [Wales] map
- Plant supports, alternative Xmas trees, willow and hedgerow materials, craft co-op (baskets)
- Teaching: Beginners and Improvers; teaching at gallery workshop, local demos and teaching
- 01291-672-469
- Helen Campbell [Dyfed] map
- Basketry designer/maker and workshop leader. I have enjoyed the progression of learning to make and sell traditional willow baskets to teaching willow weaving skills. My current basketry design ideas and interests include a range of abstract and figurative sculptural forms.
- Teaching: Freelance tutor with a broad experience of working with a range of community groups and for different organisations. Seasonal day classes and short courses for beginners and improvers : willow basket making; hedgerow basket making; willow garden structures and sculptures and recycled crafts.
- 01994-419615
- Mandy Coates [Conwy] map
- Full range trad. Baskets in willow and hedgerow: rush seating (beg), repairs
- Teaching: Beginners in brown and hedgerow, round and oval, plant supports etc
- 01745-833742
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