Name: Plant Support Basket Weaving Workshop
Start: 2025-03-19T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-19T16:30:00+00:00
Location: The Southern Malting, Kibes Lane, SG12 7BS Ware, United Kingdom

Plant Support Basket Weaving Workshop – Join us and popular tutor Judi Evans for a series of Basket Weaving Workshops over the course of 2025.
In this workshop, you will learn all the skills required to weave your very own plant support for the garden. You will weave an attractive willow obelisk for climbing plants such as clematis or sweet peas. Over the winter months, your support can also be brought indoors and festooned with twinkly lights for Christmas!
This is a relaxing workshop in which you will learn:
-How material is prepared for weaving
-How to weave around the uprights
-Create a spiral
-Finish with a decorative tie to secure

Important to note! Willow weaving is a wonderful craft, and whilst it is suitable for total beginners, it may not be accessible for everyone. All willow work requires a certain degree of flexibility and dexterity in the hands, but especially strength in the hands too. If you are unsure whether you will be able participate or not in this workshop, then do get in touch to discuss requirements in more detail.
Tools and materials are provided, however if you have a favourite pair of secateurs, please bring them along.
Judi is a regular stallholder at our Tudor Square and Southern Maltings markets. She first discovered her love of basketry 16 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2017 that she had the opportunity to immerse herself more fully in the fascinating craft. In 2018 she spent a year learning with Cambridgeshire Basket maker Debbie Hall, who taught her many willow skills which she further developed in 2019 through a City and Guilds Certification in creative Basketry. She continues to hone and develop her skills, learning with basket makers across the UK and running beginners workshops locally for small groups, where she hopes to pass on her love and enthusiasm for this ancient craft.
Judi is a member of the Basket Makers’ Association, The Heritage Craft Association and Hertfordshire Basketry.
Additional Information:
This workshop is suitable for complete beginners.
The workshop is being run with a maximum capacity of 6 and will run for 3.5 hours from 1pm – 4.30pm on Wednesday 19th March at a cost of £45 per head. We are also hosting an alternative plant support workshop on Wednesday 24th May at 2pm.
The session will be held in our lower function space which is on the ground floor.
Please check our website for Judi’s other workshops. This year, amongst other workshops she will be leading workshops on Sunflowers, Plant collars, bird feeders, tension trays and foraged coiling.
PLEASE NOTE: Sales for this workshop need to be completed one week prior to the workshop to allow time for the correct amount of willow to be prepared and soaked in advance.
Southern Maltings is the trading name of Ware Arts Centre Limited and is a registered charity (Registered charity no. 276998). All events are run by volunteers and proceeds go towards developing the Southern Maltings into an amazing creative arts centre which will enable us to put on a wider and more frequent range of events and activities for the whole community.