Basketry Workshops
with
CHELLE MATEO, FLO HAMER & AMY COX
Workshop
Description
Spend time at our wonderful Bristol workshop discovering how to make a variety of baskets out of different materials. Three different courses are currently offered:
- Beginners experience half day making small items from willow (Tutor: Flo Hamer )
- Make a beginners basket from willow on a one-day course (Tutor: Flo Hamer)
- Make a two-day willow foraging basket/handbag, suitable for beginners and improvers alike. (Tutor: Amy Cox)
- Learn how to process an ash log and then make a beautiful square bottomed and rounded rim ash splint basket with handle in a three-day course. (Tutor: Chelle Mateo)
- Learn how to process hazel sticks and then make a lovely hazel splint basket in a two-day course. (Tutor: Flo Hamer)
Please view available courses on the calendar below and click on each for more details of course content.
Booking
About
Chelle Mateo
Chelle’s (@chelle.mateo) passion for craft began in 2013 when she was introduced to green woodworking whilst volunteering with a woodland community called the Cherrywood Project. Since then she has helped to build cob houses, cob ovens, timber framed cabins, yurts, outdoor structures, and compost toilets; admiring the use of local resources intertwined with sustainable forestry and land use. Over the years she has had the privilege to learn from the best craftspeople who encouraged her to push my craft further, and now her main passion lies in making ash splint baskets, bowl turning and leather work.
She enjoys working off-grid with hand tools, using only hardwood that is locally sourced, from sustainably managed woodlands as part of a natural thinning and woodland regeneration process. It comes either from the outskirts of Bristol, Gloucestershire, or the South/West of Wales, and is naturally air dried or solar kiln dried.
She is a member of the Heritage Crafts Association and the Basket Makers Association.
You can read more about her work on her website.
About
Flo Hamer
Flo (@flohamer ) is a traditional craftswoman specialising in green woodworking, bowl turning and basketry. She loves working with natural materials using traditional techniques. Having been an attendee on the Wood, Water, Weave course in 2023, she is now delighted to be able to introduce this wonderful craft to new people.
Flo has a background in carpentry and timber framing, after completing a natural building course she went on to build she own ‘tiny house on wheels’. Over the last few years Flo has been working with basket maker Annemarie O’Sullivan, and Windsor chair maker Jason Mosseri.
You can read more about her work on her website.
About
Amy Cox
Amy (@woven_roots_) is a land based educator and basket maker interested in the therapeutics of working with plants. Primarily, she makes foraging baskets, inspired by and made of plants including willow, rush and bark. She is also co-founder of The Birch Collective, a CIC offering nature based wellbeing and practical skills to 16-25 yr olds to support mental health.
Her love of craft and nature was sparked at the Cherry Wood Project where she completed an apprenticeship in forestry and craft. She has a level 2 City and Guilds in Basket Making and is a student of the School of Intuitive Herbalism
She is a member of the Basket Makers Association
