This month my basket is made from materials obtained during my trip to Scotland last October. There are two different types of grass in the basket. The darker one is one that was cut from Dundee Botanic Gardens where I had been demonstrating at an open day. My friend Clare, …
This basket was made using used Christmas wrapping paper. After Christamas everyone has a pile of used wrapping paper. For this basket rather than just throw it away, I thought I would try and use some of it. After ripping the paper into strips I twisted them into a length …
This is a small basket I learnt to make years ago. It is made from New Zealand Flax (phormium tenax) and is a traditional basket made by Maori’s in New Zealand. I got the materials from Dundee Botanic Gardens when I was working there demonstrationg basketry with natural fibres at …
My latest basket from found materials uses cord made from bindweed and fibres from cordyline leaves. To get from my house to my workshop in Hastings I have to walk down 300 steps to the bottom of the hill I live on. These steps are overgrown with a variety of …
Well after having settled in, in Hastings, I am back with my Baskets From Found Materials project. As I am now busy with my business here I am not committing to a basket a week, but hope to do one at least one a month, if not more often! My …
This week as in week 5 I used hair moss that I collected on Arran…… …….together with some odd strands of wool that I found at home. I made the moss into rope and coiled it into a bowl shape sowing the coils together with the wool. The result was …
This week I am using telephone wire again. I guess now that everything is wireless we do not have such a need for telephone cables and, this week, I still had lots left after making baskets with them last week, and the week before. Like last week I stripped …
You may remember that last week I made a basket using some old telephone cables. I still had loads of these left over and so decided to see if I could find a further use for them. I peeled off the plastic cable coating of one to see what was …
I have just recently moved home and while packing found some old cables and wires stored at the back of cupboards. I thought these would be useful for baskets in the future and rather than throwing them out decided to keep them. I have used some of them for this …
This week I used an old fish net that I found on the beach as the main framework for the basket. The net was made into a cylindrical shape and then string made from natural materials found on Arran, plus strands of beach rope, were woven randomly into it. Here …