Baskets, commissions, courses and coppice life

Places are available on the Hen Basket course @water.lane on Oct 5/6th 2024. This traditional basket also known as an Ose basket will teach you all the skills you will need to make strong elegant frame baskets. #waterlanewalledgarden #framebasket #fr
Recently made shrimp baskets, wren basket and cyntell, Hastings. Materials include locally harvested hazel, sweet chestnut, wild rose and willow. #framebasket #willowbasket #fishingbasket #handmade #sustainable
Images from the frame basket course @water.lane last weekend. Skills learnt included setting a frame, adding the ribs progressively and at the same time keeping the basket profile smooth and even. Finally getting your head round the idea of packing (
Images from last weeks Devon Stave basket course at Horam Manor Farm. Skills learnt included cleaving and shaving greenwood, setting components using jigs and shaping staves to fit using a block plane. Excellent baskets were made. #devonstavebaskets
Just spent a couple of days in the West Country teaching Devon Stave baskets @the_old_kennels. Mark Snelgrove, expert on stave basketry generously taught me this endangered Heritage basket and I’m trying to do my bit by passing on the skills.
Shrimping frame basket made from hazel and black maul willow. This and other frame baskets and willow creations will be available at the Great Dixter Christmas Fair weekend of 25th/26th November. #framebasket #handmade #willowbasket #greatdixter
Workshop scenes, October 2023 Horam Manor Farm. #framebasket #willowbasket #devonstavebasket #sussextrug #watercressbasket
I’ll be @sussexprairies this weekend 16/17th September with baskets such as this one and garden sculptural work. With lots of beautiful work from other designer/makers at the craft fair curated by @beautiful_useful_ #baskets #willow #handmade
Two styles of constructed frame basket recently made. The French artichoke or Mellon basket made in this case from two year old split willow and the Sussex Trug made from sweet chestnut and white willow. Both light but rugged harvesting baskets. #fra
Canterbury watercress baskets. Split white willow. #framebaskets #heritagecraft #willowbasket
Shrimp basket, Flanders red willow.,Hastings, Sussex. Based on a design from Brittany. #hastings #framebasket #willowbaskets