Plaited Basketry Workshop

Two-day plaited basketry workshop at Pitt Rivers Museum on Friday 19th & Saturday 20th June, from 10am to 4.30pm.

£160 (£128 Pitt Rivers Museum members) which includes refreshments and lunch on both days, and all the materials and equipment you’ll need.

In this two day introductory workshop we will be working with old maps to learn the techniques for making a small basket based on ‘elbow baskets’, made by the Choctaw people in South East USA. The ‘elbow basket’ is traditionally made with river cane and various forms and weave patterns are made – some simple and others more complex. As with most basketry techniques many variations are possible depending on scale and materials used for working.

In the workshop you will learn how to prepare your weaving strips, how to work basic checkweave, then on to making the elbow basket form, how to work a simple border, and finally adding a small hanging handle.

For more information about the course content and full details of how to book go to this link  :  https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/plaited-basketry-workshop