Archives de la catégorie : ‘The magazine’

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 […]

Bernard Bertrand was the guest of Ruth Stégassy on the programme « Terre à Terre », on France Culture, Saturday 20 February 2016. To hear a recording of this programme (in French), click on the link below: http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/terre-terre/extractivisme-45-ne-prete-qu-aux-ruches To find out more about bees and beehives: Discover LLC n° 7 (French only) and the book Ruches de […]

A binder to store your copies of Le Lien Créatif magazine (4 or 8 at a time), would you be interested? Write us: redaction@leliencreatif.fr!

Send us your most beautiful basketry pictures! We will post them on our Facebook page and a selection will be printed in a future edition of Le Lien Créatif magazine. Here is the address to send your pictures: redaction@leliencreatif.fr. We’re ready to be surprised! By sending us a picture you accept that it be published […]

Write to us to propose texts and pictures to complete our dossiers or to to give us other information about anything weaving. Future subjects: Tableware (plates, table mats, saucers, silverware, baskets, etc.) Basketry and fashion (parasols, hats, accessories, jewelry box or work basket…) Make your own tools The basket, a friend for life (moses basket, […]

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 !

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.  

  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 […]

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.