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With Hilary Burns – website
Back by popular demand! Make your own interpretation of a vintage-style shopping basket in willow, with border detail depending on your level of skill. Beginners are welcome and will make a conveniently sized round basket with a carrying handle and simple border. If you are an improver you might choose to make a larger, oblong or oval basket. If proficient, you will experiment with more complex techniques. Shopping baskets with decorative details such as enamelled split cane strips, plaited bands, twisted cord, and roped or plaited borders, were popular in the 1950’and 60’s. No one left home to go shopping without one, including men.
Hilary is an experienced tutor and is happy to discuss your requirements in advance so that she can bring suitable materials. We will use willows from Hilary’s collection, and incorporate other natural materials and bark for decorative interest.
£195 (plus materials approximately £20)
Photo credits: black and white images from a set of photos of baskets in the British Council collection at the Museum of English Rural Life. The major part of the collection was prepared immediately after the Second World War for a travelling exhibition which was sent to Australia and New Zealand. They date from 1945-1954.