Posts Tagged ‘tutorial’

Click on the image to download the tutorial (format pdf) on how to make a laundry basket from Alder buckthorn. Dimensions: L=60 cm (24 inches); W = 40 cm (16 inches); D = 16 cm (6 inches). Technique: Frame basket. Level: Confirmed weaver, practiced in making the laths. Materials: A range of alder buckthorn shoots of all […]

Life is like a freeform basket weaving, composed of circles, of cycles, of harmonious mixings. The harmony appears global, but as soon as one takes the time to look at the details, it is chaos which reigns and dramas which unfold. The movements of human populations are one of those cycles which are often scribed […]

Click on the image to download the tutorial by Sylvie Bégot (format pdf) on how to make a fruit basket from newspaper. Find this step by step guide in the dossier “Baskets from the orchard”, in Le Lien Créatif, Winter 2015.

This little tutorial will guide you, step by step, through the making of this charming object. Perfect for decoration, as an earring, or at the end of a pendant, etc. If you don’t have palm leaf, you can use rye straw, or fine, regular hazel or willow weavers. It’s up to you now and we […]

How do you make a ball out of rattan? Nothing could be easier when you watch this video and follow the lesson which goes with it in Le Lien Créatif, Autumn 2015. Video in French https://youtu.be/a9T7UUy9ieI This lesson is proposed along with the article “Let’s have a ball!” which appeared in the Autumn 2015 edition […]

In this edition Le Lien Créatif featured the second part of its dossier on the bulrush or cattail (including techniques for making a hat and a plate mat amongst other things). Here to complete the dossier, you can watch to see how the Polish weaver, Helena Rogla, weaves a shopping basket with bulrush leaves. Video […]

Click on the image to download the start of the tutorial (format pdf) on how to make a table mat from bulrush. You will find the full step by step guide in Le Lien Creatif, Autumn 2015.