- Northern Spirits Basket Cache
Lita A. Atkinson, Instructor in Basketry
606 S. Alaska St
Palmer, AK 99645
907-746-3360
Classes offered in plaiting, rib basketry, wicker and twining.
I also carry a full line of natural, smoked and colored reeds,
handles, dyes and stains.
As well as embellishments, weaving materials and books.
I also have baskets from around the world for sale as well as
Alaskan made baskets.
- Basket Artisans of Arizona
Phoenix, AZOur mission is to weave baskets, and to learn all we can about the time-honored
practices and techniques of basket weaving.
We promote basketry as a craft and art form through education at our meetings, classes,
demonstrations, and exhibits. We welcome beginning, experienced, and professional weavers,
as well as collectors of baskets and other fiber arts.
- Sedona Arts Center
15 Art Barn Road
Sedona, Arizona
Introduction to Japanese style basketry
March 26 - 30, 2007
Donna Sakamoto Crispin
We will be working mostly with reed, cane, tortoise shell cane, Japanese reed, and a tiny bit of bamboo.
- The Caning Shop
926 Gilman St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 527-5010
Email: jwidess@caning.com
The current schedule of classes is at:
Caning Shop Classes
- Feather River Art Camp
5469 Oakland Camp Road
Quincy, California
Phone: 510.601.1619
Email: klegault@sbcglobal.net
Contemporary Baskets, Ancient Ways
Donna Sakamoto Crispin
June 24 to July 1, 2007
$195 Tuition, plus $32 Material Fee, Age 16 and older
Let your hands create a tactile expression of your heart and spirit!
You'll learn a variety of twining techniques, starting with a simple twined basket and
progressing to many other ways to create pattern and texture. Gain knowledge in commercially
prepared materials, harvesting and weaving natural materials, different basket starts (bases) and rims.
Participants will complete several baskets that are your own personal expression.
Fiber artist, Donna Sakamoto Crispin, specializes in basketry woven with wild-crafted materials.
Her work is influenced by traditional Japanese and N.W. Native American basketry techniques.
She has been teaching basketweaving techniques for over 19 years. Donna encourages her students
to re-connect and receive inspiration from nature.
- Idyllwild Arts Summer Program
P.O. Box 38
Idyllwild, CA 92549
(909) 659-2171, ext. 365
- Nadine Spier
132 N El Camino Real #165
Encinitas CA 92024
(760) 944-9369
Email: info@nadinespier.com
PINE NEEDLE BASKETS: New students will learn how to coil beautiful baskets around a
miniature woven design (teneriffe) using waxed linen thread & pine needles.
The technique
can later be used to weave baskets using almost any plant material.
Intermediate
students are welcome to come to learn more basketry techniques.
BEGINNING GOURDS: Learn how to safely cut and clean gourds, plus lots of decorative
techniques including woodburning, basketry, dyeing and embellishing with leaves,
feathers, beads and more.
RAG BASKETS: Quick & Easy! In just a couple hours you can turn
leftover scraps of
fabric into beautiful baskets! Rag baskets make great
decorator items and gifts.
- River Country Basket Guild
Augusta, GA
Contact: Laura Lee Zanger
(706) 560-9800
Email: plotherbs@aol.com
River Country Basket Guild offers basket making
classes on the first three
Tuesdays of each month at St. Alban's Episcopal
Church, 2321 Lumpkin Road, in
Augusta, Georgia at 7:00 p.m..
- Sandpoint Fiberarts Guild
P.O. Box 655
Sandpoint,ID 83864
(Click on the above guild name, for
their web page with workshop info.
- From the Heart Boutique
119 E. Main Cross
Taylorville, IL 62568
217-824-4418
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10-6 and Saturday 9-4.
- Hawk Valley School of the Arts
2752 West Cording Road,
Galena, IL 61036
Phone:888/777-6016
Hawk Valley School of the Arts is a regional center for creativity in
the visual arts, offering classes in the restored 1905 barn.
We offer one-day to five-day workshops to students ages 16 years old and up.
No matter what the season, the beauty of Hawk Valley Retreat has something to offer.
- Land of Lincoln Basketweavers "Spring Fling Weave"
April 11-12, 2008
Rockford, IL
We have a great line-up to our Spring Weave 2008 event! The event will be hosted at the
Cliffbreakers Riverside Resort and Convention Center in Rockford Illinois. Cliffbreakers is situated
six stories above the river and offers an award winning restaurant, cocktail lounge, martini lounge,
heated indoor swimming pool, fitness center, in-room refrigerator, microwave, & coffee maker.
Our weaving room overlooks the beautiful Rock River!
- Basket Class
2012 Southlawn Drive
Des Moines, IA 50315-4981
(515)285-2789
We offer adult education classes through Des Moines, West Des Moines, and Ankeny, Iowa school systems. We give demonstrations in historic basket weaving and classes at Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa.
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Box 518A
Deer Isle, ME 04627
(207) 348-2306
1998 - Ferne Jacobs, John McQueen
- Penobscot Basket School
Searsport, Maine
Marie Winship
302 East 89th Street #2B
New York, NY 10128
(212) 410-4662
- D.E.L.S.
(The Source for Nantucket's)
246 Middleboro Rd.
E. Freetown, MA 02717
(508) 763-5555
(800) 957-3357
- Donna Weber
64 Blotz Road
Washington, MA 01223
(413)655-8601
Email: cweber@cbcc.bcwan.net
- Classes every Tues., Thurs, and Fri. evening.
Groups of 5 or more can schedule their own classes
(in the Berkshire Mountains).
- Horizons
108 North Main St.
Sunderland, MA 01375
(413) 665-0300
Fax: (413) 665-4141
- Nantucket Lightship Basket Shop
Timothy D. Parsons
80 Old South Road
Nantucket MA 02554
(508) 228-8714
Email: tim@nantucket.net
Timothy Parsons Nantucket Basket Shop located on Nantucket Island is the
only shop on island that includes both high quality baskets and a full
line of molds, parts, kits, supplies, and classes.
- Plimoth Plantation
P.O. Box 1620
Plymouth, MA 02362
(508) 746-1622
Fax: (508) 746-4978
- Inland Sea Basketry
123 Waterfront Drive
Two Harbors, MN 55616
(On the beautiful North Shore of Lake Superior)
(218) 834-4342
Email: getpt@computerpro.com
We teach basketry classes at our shop as well as through Community
Education programs in Two Harbors and Duluth. Our occasional Saturday 'Open
Weave's at the Shop have been a hit with individuals wanting to finish past
baskets, or start something new, while visiting and sipping coffee. Come
join us!
- The Wicker Woman
Cathryn Peters
1250 Highway 25
Angora, MN 55703 USA
(218) 666-6189
Deer antler basket classes, chair caning and other seat weaving classes
for private instruction, or classes for your guild, workshop or convention
- Martha Wetherbee Basket Shop
171 Eastman Hill Road
Sanbornton, NH 03269
(40 minutes north of Concord, NH)
(603)286-8927
Email: basketshop@cyberportal.net
- Beaver Brook Association
117 Ridge Rd.
Hollis, NH 03049
(603) 465-7787
- Karen Johnson
13 Powers Lane
Brookline, NH 03033
(603) 673-8443
Email: eagerweaver@charter.net
Teaching occasionally
- Lynne Schlichting
Gallery 174
174 Main St.
Nashua, NH 03060
(603) 880-0796
- Sharon Arts Center
457 NH Route 123
Sharon, NH 03458
(603) 924-7256
- Bonnie Gale, Willow Basketry Classes
412 Coounty Rd. 31
Norwich, NY 13815-3149
(607) 336-9031
Email: bonwillow@ascent.net
- John McGuire Studio
398 South Main St.
Geneva, NY 14456
(315) 781-1251
- Thousand Islands Craft School
314 John St.
Clayton, NY 13624
(315) 686-4123
- Westchester Area Basketmakers Guild
Judy Flanders
146 Havilands Lane
White Plains, N! 10605
(914) 761-8698
Email: sflandrs@tribeca.ios.com
To attend one of the workshops, you must be a member of the
Westchester Guild ($15./yr). Contact Judy Flanders for more information.
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- Cherokee Baskets
Peggy Sanders Brennan
PO Box 5404
Edmond, OK 73083-5404
405 478 7835
Email: pbweave@aol.com
Southeast Indian and other basket classes.
Workshops in natural dyes. Ongoing Classes: Guthrie Arts Center,
Guthrie, OK; City Arts Center,
Oklahoma City, OK:
University of Central OK, Edmond, OK.
- Cherokee Basket Classes
405) 670-2862
Email: mstone777@aol.com
Double-walled basket classes are usually held
evenings (Tues/Wed/Thurs - 3 hrs each night) and also an all-day Saturday workshop is held from 9:00-5:00. Currently classes are held at a local military installation in the Oklahoma City area. Must have at least 3 students to make a class. Class size is limited to no
more than 7 students.
Contact Mary Stone for
workshop costs, list of materials needed & out-of-state workshop
information.
- Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
PO Box 65
Otis, OR 97368
(541) 994-5485
Contemporary Baskets, Ancient Ways
Donna Sakamoto Crispin
Tues-Thurs, June 19-21, 2007, 10am-4pm
$195 Tuition, plus $32 Material Fee, Age 16 and older
Let your hands create a tactile expression of your heart and spirit!
You'll learn a variety of twining techniques, starting with a simple twined basket and
progressing to many other ways to create pattern and texture. Gain knowledge in commercially
prepared materials, harvesting and weaving natural materials, different basket starts (bases) and rims.
Participants will complete several baskets that are your own personal expression.
Fiber artist, Donna Sakamoto Crispin, specializes in basketry woven with wild-crafted materials.
Her work is influenced by traditional Japanese and N.W. Native American basketry techniques.
She has been teaching basketweaving techniques for over 19 years. Donna encourages her students
to re-connect and receive inspiration from nature.
- Baskets My Specialty
Pati English
114A Nimmons Circle
Seneca, SC 29678
Email: BasketsMySpecialty@yahoo.com
Offering basket weaving workshops in my studio or your location.
Working with reed, cane, seagrass, oak, in traditional, and contemporary
patterns, and original award winning designs. As a Resident Artist with
the South Carolina Art Commission, I travel to schools in
the Upstate and teach the skills of basket weaving
to students in grades 4-12.
- Hampton Plantation State Park
1950 Rutledge Rd.
McClellanville, SC 29458
(803) 546-9361
Nov. 8, Sew Your Own Sweetgrass Basket, $25. prior registration
required.
- SouthWest Creations (Gourd Artist)
Rowena Philbeck
5377 Rye School Rd.
Bryan, Texas 77807
(979) 779-9663
(979) 492-8445 Cell
Email: rphilbeck@archmail.tamu.eduu
I teach Gourd Rim weaving on gourds and Basket weaving on gourds using
natural materials. I also teach gourd jewelry (weaving on gourd pieces).
Class limit is 6. Kids and adults. I will travel within or out the the
state to teach. I have been working with gourds for 11 years. I'm in
books/magazines and have done workshops/shows and my work has been
displayed in galleries. Please email or call if you have any questions.
Some of my work can be seen at:
www.picturetrail.com/rphilbeck
- Why Basketry
Laura Ashe
Plano, TX
Email: basketcase@lauraashe.com
I teach basketry to small groups (4-6 students)
out of my home in Plano, TX. My
website
has the class schedule and
information. All tools and materials are provided in the class.
In the Introduction to Basketry classes, students will:
-make their own basket, (similar to those in photograph on website)
-learn basket weaving techniques,
-learn tips and some basket patterns to get them started weaving on
their own,
-learn where they can purchase basketry supplies via mail order and in
local area stores,
-learn reed dying techniques.
- Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts
611 Route 103 South
Ludlow, Vt 05149
802-228-8770
A non-profit school located in Ludlow VT, that offers a
wide variety of arts and crafts courses during the summer, including
numerous courses on basketry.
- Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Centers
Burlington, VT - (802) 860-7474
Manchester, VT - (802) 362-3321
Middlebury, VT - (802) 388-3177
A wide variety of crafts classes offered year round.
- Jackie Abrams
21 Howard Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
(802) 257-2688
These workshops enable participants to make their own paper baskets
using a variety of techniques that I've been developing since 1990.
Classes can be modified to fit your interest and ability and can
last from two days to two weeks in length. Paint and create your own
basket materials with cotton paper, a wonderfully versatile and
user-friendly material. You will be encouraged to pursue your own
ideas and incorporate them into your baskets. The diversity of
results is always inspiring.
- Stowe Basketry Festival
June 7-13, 2010
39 Edson Hill Rd.
Stowe, VT 05672
802-253-7223
- Sugar Brook House, LLC
716 Dugar Brook Road
East Calais, VT 05650
(802) 456-1415
Email: Birchbarker@aol.com
The culmination of a family legacy of basket making--dating back to the 1500's--
is continued today by Dana Pictou and Lorraine Landers. Fine ash and birchbark
baskets are weaved from only the bark and roots, using traditional American
Indian methods to harvest the root. Basket weaving supplies and tools, and
basket making workshops are also available.
- High Country Basketry Guild
P.O. Box 167
Annandale, VA 22003-0167
Diana Macomber
Email: ZOHE@aol.com
Classes in Northern Virginia.
- FishSticks
Bill Roeder & Judy Zugish
PO Box 1417
Marysville, Wa 98270
Email: fishsticks@greatnorthern.net
We teach beginning and intermediate level traditional
and contemporary basketry weekly. Every month we host
a guest instructor, including Sally Goymer,
Jiro Yonezawa, Margaret Mathewson, and many others.
We publish three catalogs each year with our classes listed.
We carry basketry supplies, specializing in processed
red and yellow cedar, and Japanese pre-split bamboo of
an exceptional quality.
- Pacific Weave
3008-B 16th Ave. West
Seattle, WA 98118
(206) 285-9171
(800) 879-3283
Fax: (206) 285-0132
- East Troy Basketry Co.
2082 Church St.
East Troy,Wi 53120 (23 miles south of Milwaukee)
(262)642-3732
(888)424-9866
Email: basket@wcf.net
Located on the Historic East Troy Square since 1990.
We offer classes almost every day by 10 different
teachers and in addition, we bring in nationally known
teachers several times a year. We have classes in
reed baskets, antler baskets, pine needle baskets and
weaving with other naturals such as birch, cattails,
philodendron sheath etc.
- The Market Basket
266 Highway 57
Sister Bay, WI 54234
(414) 854-9874
- Moonwise Herbs
PO Box 166
Sheboygan, WI 53081
Email: rosemarygoddess@moonwiseherbs.com
We offer Earth Center Classes including herbal medicine making,
herbal soap making, skin and body care, pine neede basket weaving,
home cheese making, cooking with herbs, nourishing herbal beveraages,
communicating from the heart and more.
- Sievers School of Fiber Arts
Ferry Rd.
Washington Island, WI 54246
(414) 847-2264
- Sep. 24-26, Bent Willow Chair, Richard Gilliand
- Oct. 1-3, Gourd Vessels, Donna Kallner
- Lunenburg Seaside Craft School
Lunenburg Seaside Craft School offers week-long courses in traditional
crafts during late July through August. Taught by some of Nova Scotia's leading
artisans, courses offered include Clay work, Fiber Arts, Basketry, Textile Dyeing,
Paper Arts, Rug Hooking, and Printmaking.
- Willow Basketry Workshops July 2002
A series of 5 workshops for beginner basket makers using traditional
European techniques. For information and registration contact
Lynda Vaun Scobie 6116 Golf Road, Agassiz BC, Canada V0M 1A1
(604) 796-9871,
lscobie@uniserve.com
Registration deadline July 1, 2002\
- Haliburton School of Fine Arts>
Part of the Sir
Sandford Fleming College in cottage country in
Northern Ontario, offers a number of one-week courses during the
summer including basketry for the garden. Other courses available are
Three-Dimensional Willow Sculpture, Willow Furniture which teaches
particpants how to identify and harvest wood suitable for
furniture-making, and Willow Mirrors.
For more information or to register call 705-457-1680 or e-mail:
sschell@flemingc.on.ca
- Peers Caning
Gina Peers
Peterborough, Ontario
705-743-4583
Email: info@peerscaning.com
Offers basketry classes, chair caning workshops,
and bent-willow chair weekend workshops.
- Scanlon Creek Conservation Area
Bradford, Ontario
905-895-1281 for further information
- Woven Views
6 Colbey Street
St. Catharines, Ontario
(905) 685-6923
Lynda Rance Kroeker has been weaving for 12 years and teaching for over
a year. Classes run year round. Email me to book a class, or check the
current class schedule at
lkroeker@sprint.ca
or you can check my web site for pictures at
Woven Views
- Jenny Pearce Willow Basketmaker
I produce both traditional and contemporary work based on
both Celtic and English regional techniques.
I am located in Herefordshire England.
I also run courses for both beginners and
those developing their basketry skills.
- Joni Bamford
Quarry Cottage
73 Main Street
Empingham, Rutland
LE15 8PR England
Tel: 01780-460-744.
Email: bamford@quarry-cottage.freeserve.co.uk.
Basketmaker and teacher for over 12 years:
Classes in beginners & improvers' Willow/hedgerow,
rushwork, cane (reed), natural materials,
manmade materials (plaiting, twining, weaving, coiling etc).
Weekly class on Thursdays, also some weekends, or
individual tuition.
Rutland is located 100 miles north of
London; England's smallest county, quiet & rural.
Wonderful place to visit to see the real England!;
walking, cycling, birdwatching, fishing, sailing,
old pubs & stone-built villages,
open-air Shakespeare theatre all within 5 miles.
- Willow Pool Designs
9 WESTON HOUSES
DOVE NEST LANE
ENDMOOR NR. KENDAL
CUMBRIA, U.K.
LA8 0HA ENGLAND
Steve Fuller & Simone Siegan - We work in willow and make and sell a wide variety of craft items made from living and dried
willow rods. We work with museums, art galleries and country parks in a wide variety of ways building
installations and living willow features. We teach willow craft workshops to adults and children
in both indoor and outdoor settings. We demonstrate willow crafts at museums and countryside
events.
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