Salon Primevère
Le Lien Créatif will be at the salon Primevère (26, 27 & 28 February in Lyon – France), and will be featuring woven beehives. To get your FREE entry ticket (normally 8€) send us your postal address !
Palme d’or, portfolio Antonio Rodriguez
As an addition to the feature in the magazine Le Lien Créatif, Winter 2015, discover the complete portfolio of Antonio Rodriguez, weaver of Palmito (Dwarf Fan Palm). Click on the image to download the portfolio in pdf format.
Editorial: Follow your dreams
And they say that we learn more easily when we are young. I say that’s nonsense. Jean-Claude, to whom I owe the inspiration for this editorial, is learning to be a professional basket weaver at the age of 59! At an age when most of us are afraid for our futures, at an age […]
The fruit basket
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.
A Humbug in palm leaf or rye straw
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 […]
Want to become a contributor to the magazine?
Want to become a contributor to the magazine? Submit to us texts, photos to fuel our reports, we provide information for topics as varied as: Complete dossiers on topics such as « Corsican basket weaving », « Straw hives », « be a professional basket maker in 2020 » or « basket-making and land’art », etc. Feature articles on basketry and its contribution […]
Editorial : Anglo-Francophone!
Le Lien Créatif (LLC for short) is an independent quarterly magazine devoted to basketry and the art of basket weaving. It is celebrating its third anniversary and this means that as you read this page, twelve issues of the magazine have already been published and distributed… With 3 free editions that is a total of […]
Editorial: Intangible Heritage
UNESCO has classified traditional activities and artisanal crafts as parts of our Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). (See the introduction to the dossier on page 14.) Their intention is laudable, to protect knowledge and skills so they might be transmitted to future generations… The job is huge! The skills required for the creation of baskets are numerous […]