Basketry Workshops
with
NADIA LETITIA, CHELLE MATEO, NADINE GRUNDY & SARAH JAYNE EDWARDS
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:
- Make a berry basket from Somerset willow (Tutor: Nadia Letitia or Sarah Jayne Edwards)
- Learn how to process an ash log and then make a beautiful square bottomed ash splint basket in a two-day course. (Tutor: Chelle Mateo)
- Weave baskets from bark, making use of this wonderful and strong material. (Tutor: Nadine Grundy)
Please view available courses on the calendar below and click on each for more details of course content.
Booking
About
Nadia Letitia
Nadia (@nadia.letitia ) is a self-taught willow weaver and nature crafts practitioner. She has been developing her teaching practice over a number of years doing basketry workshops at festivals and events and teaching on the Shift Bristol course.
Day to day, Nadia facilitates connection to nature for those who are struggling with mental health as well as undertaking woodland management and coppicing activities in the winter.
About
Sarah Jayne Edwards
Sarah Jayne Edwards (@sarahjayneweave) is a designer maker with a particular interest in working with willow and natural fibres. She has been teaching craft and willow workshops since 2011 and loves showing people how to turn a bunch of sticks into a work of art. Sarah loves inspiring and motivating people to reach their creative potential.
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
Nadine Grundy
Nadine (@nadinefoxcrafts ) is a woodland craftsperson, who has been undertaking, and teaching, a variety of woodland projects for over a decade. As well as barkcraft, she also teaches spoon/bowl carving and general greenwoodworking courses to adults and children. In the Summer you’ll regularly see her demonstrating and teaching at festivals across the country and in the Winter she is more likely to be working in a coppice or hedgerow.
You can read more about her work on her website.
