AUGUST 3-4
Come spend two days in the gazebo in the woods at the Center for Belonging learning from a master basket maker! By the end of the day you'll have a finished basket. Free camping on site at Fern Hollow!
Come spend a pleasant spring day outside in beautiful Northeast Iowa learning to make a basket from experienced and patient teacher. This is a project for beginning basket makers, a Black ash berry basket that you can make in a day. It's a simple under one/over one design with a spiral weave, lashed on the rim.
Zac Fittipaldi lives in northern Minnesota on the edge of a beautiful lake and has been weaving baskets and teaching basketry for 12 years. Zac grows his own willow and harvests his own ash splints. He creates hex weave, black ash and willow baskets, with the occasional soft twined basswood bag. See more of his photos at Instagram @willow_and_ash_baskets.
Tickets: $300.00, checkout below
Come spend two days in the gazebo in the woods at the Center for Belonging learning from a master basket maker! Free camping on site at Fern Hollow! This basket is traditionally used to strain cheese but its uses know no bounds!
This is a project for beginning basket makers, a Black ash berry basket that you can make in a weekend. It's a simple under one/over one design with a spiral weave, lashed on the rim.
Zac Fittipaldi lives in northern Minnesota on the edge of a beautiful lake and has been weaving baskets and teaching basketry for 12 years. Zac grows his own willow and harvests his own ash splints. He creates hex weave, black ash and willow baskets, with the occasional soft twined basswood bag. See more of his photos at Instagram @willow_and_ash_baskets.
Black ash splints are pounded out of a very straight branchless trunk. We will be cutting the pre-pounded splints into smaller lengths and widths. Then this hexagonal/plaited basket starts with a six-pointed star, turns up with a five-pointed star, and continues with our over-one, under-one pattern. We finish with a classic bound rim.
9:00a-5:00p both days, bring your own lunch, free camping, $300/person, weaving supplies included.
