'Smiling Basket' Willow Weaving Workshop

Sat Mar 21 2026 at 10:00 am to 04:30 pm UTC+00:00

Paternoster Row, EX31 1BH Barnstaple, United Kingdom | Barnstaple

St Anne's Arts & Community Centre, Barnstaple
Publisher/HostSt Anne's Arts & Community Centre, Barnstaple
'Smiling Basket' Willow Weaving Workshop
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Tutor: Jane Welsh

On this one day course we will be learning the traditional skills of basketry whilst making this curved sided basket with raised finger holes.
This basket is suitable for harvesting in the garden or piling high with clementines at Christmas!.
A variety of naturally coloured willows will be available from which you can choose to make your own useful and beautiful basket.

This course is suitable for beginners.

All equipment provided.
Tea & Coffee available throughout the day for a small donation.
10am-4.30pm
£60.00 +£10 for materials payable to the tutor on the day.
Book online or call The Box Office: 01805 624624
If a workshop you'd like to do is fully booked ring Box Office (01805 624624) to be added to the waiting list, you might be lucky! This also helps us ascertain the demand for particular workshops when programming.
PARKING
The closest long term car parks (and the cheapest) can be found at:
Fair View, Barnstaple EX31 1JR
Pilton Causeway, Barnstaple EX32 7AA
About Jane
I have been basket making for 24 years and have been working professionally and running courses for the last 14 years. I feel ardently about protecting the knowledge of our traditional rural crafts that are so much a part of our heritage. I like to get people enthused to work with willow and rush, these versatile, sustainable materials.
My background is in arts and crafts. Having studied art, design and furniture making, worked in traditional timber framing and dabbled in stone masonry and stained glass, I then became hooked on basket making, mainly learning from the much respected Gloucestershire basket maker Sheila Wynter.
In 2022 I won 3rd prize in the Basketry of the Year Award.
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