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 […]
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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 […]
Let’s have a ball!
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 […]
Plant spotlight: the bulrush
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 […]
A bulrush table mat
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.
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 […]