Weaving by the Sea

Saturday, 14 December 2024

Weaving by the Sea 2025 - dates announced!

Weaving by the Sea 2025 - dates announced!
the Mediterranean Basketry Holiday
Hotel Cesar, Vilanova i La Geltru, near Barcelona, Spain

We are delighted to announce the dates for our Weaving by the Sea 2025 events.
Following the success of the 2024 events we will once again offer a Weaving by the Sea Spring School and a Weaving by the Sea Autumn School. These together will comprise a varied programme of 15 workshops at our favourite venue, the Hotel Cesar in Vilanova i La Geltru near to Barcelona, Spain.

We are currently finalising our workshop details and they will be published here soon, if you would like details of our booking details please sign up four 'early-bird' newsletter here: Weaving by the Sea Newsletter

Booking for both the Spring and Autumn School will open together in late January 2024, please note pre-booking is not possible!

Weaving by the Sea 2025 - Spring School

1st Courses: 3 days - Friday, Saturday & Sunday 4-6 April 2025

Mai Hvid Joergensen - Introduction to Willow Bark Basketry

Mònica Guilera - Round Willow Baskets in Nansa Technique

Tim Johnson - Ugandan Grasshopper Basket

Day off and special evening event - Monday 7 April 2025

2nd Courses: 3 days - Tuesday - Thursday 8-10 April 2025

Mai Hvid Joergensen - Mad Weave in Willow Bark
Mònica Guilera - Catalan Willow Handbags & Shoppers
Tim Johnson - Neolithic Braiding - Round Baskets

Weaving by the Sea 2025 - Autumn School

1st Courses: 3 days -Tuesday - Thursday 23-25 September 2025

Mai Hvid Joergensen - Oval Willow & Hazel Handbags

Mònica Guilera - Star Base Willow Platters in Nansa Technique

Tim Johnson - Invisible Stitch - Braided & Stitched Rush Baskets

2nd Courses: 3 days - Saturday - Monday 27-29 September 2025
François Desplanches - Oval Willow Baskets with Scalloms
Mai Hvid Joergensen - Squarework Willow Handbags
Tim Johnson - Inspired by Kishies and Caishies

3rd Courses: 3 days - Wednesday - Friday 1-3 October 2025

François Desplanches - Oval Willow Tray with fitched base and scalloms
Mònica Guilera - Date Palm Basketry
Tim Johnson - Camel Looping with rush, fabric and esparto grass

Salt International Basketmakers Fair, near Girona
Saturday & Sunday 4-5 Ocober 2025

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Weaving by the Sea 2024 - booking open!

Thank you to all our Weaving by the Sea Early Birds! we have had a great response to Sundays's booking launch and we are looking forward to meeting everyone at our Spring and Autumn Schools this year.

Weaving by the Sea Autumn School 2024 is now completely sold out - but we are keeping waiting lists for each workshop just in case of any cancellations.

However we still have some availability for our Weaving by the Sea Spring School, 6th-11th April, all the workshop details are on our Workshops 2024 page and you can find out how to book your place on our Booking Details 2024 page.

Weaving by the Sea 2024 - Spring School

1st Courses: 2 days - Saturday & Sunday 6-7 April 2024

Mai Hvid Joergensen - Introduction to Bark Basketmaking

Mònica Guilera - Round Collecting Baskets in the Catalan tradition

Tim Johnson - Finding Fibres - Cordage Making for Basketmaking

Day off and special evening event - Monday 8 April 2024

2nd Courses: 3 days - Tuesday - Thursday 9-11 April 2024

Tim Johnson - Inspired by Kishies and Caishies

Mònica Guilera - Nansa Beach Baskets & Handbags

Mai Hvid Joergensen - Exploring Rope Weaving Techniques

Thursday, 11 January 2024

Weaving by the Sea 2024 - dates announced

Weaving by the Sea 2024 - dates announced!
the Mediterranean Basketry Holiday
Hotel Cesar, Vilanova i La Geltru, near Barcelona, Spain

We are delighted to announce the dates for our Weaving by the Sea 2024 events.
By popular demand we will offer for the first time both a Weaving by the Sea Spring School and a Weaving by the Sea Autumn School. These together will comprise a varied programme of 15 workshops at our favourite venue, the Hotel Cesar in Vilanova i La Geltru near to Barcelona, Spain.

Booking for both the Spring and Autumn School will open together in late January 2024, please note pre-booking is not possible!

Weaving by the Sea 2024 - Spring School

1st Courses: 2 days - Saturday & Sunday 6-7 April 2024

Mai Hvid Joergensen

Mònica Guilera

Tim Johnson

Day off and special evening event - Monday 8 April 2024

2nd Courses: 3 days - Tuesday - Thursday 9-11 April 2024

Mai Hvid Joergensen
Mònica Guilera
Tim Johnson

Weaving by the Sea 2024 - Autumn School

1st Courses: 3 days -Tuesday - Thursday 24-26 September 2024

Mai Hvid Joergensen

Mònica Guilera

Tim Johnson

2nd Courses: 3 days - Saturday - Monday 28-30 September 2024
François Desplanches
Mònica Guilera
Tim Johnson

3rd Courses: 3 days - Wednesday - Friday 2-4 October 2024

François Desplanches
Mai Hvid Joergensen
Tim Johnson

Salt International Basketmakers Fair, near Girona
Saturday & Sunday 5-6 Ocober 2024

Thursday, 12 October 2023

Weaving by the Sea 2023

Thank you to all our Weaving by the Sea 2023 workshop participants - so many beautiful baskets created and special moments shared over our 9 workshops over 11 days. It was such a pleasure to meet everyone travelling from near and far and we look forward to welcoming you to Weaving by the Sea 2024, we are making plans already!

We'll be sharing more photos over the coming weeks on our Instagram page and here too with our annual gallery page.

Saturday, 4 March 2023

Weaving by the Sea 2023 is now sold out, thank you so much to all our 'early bird' members!

Due to unprecedented demand we sold out very quickly this year and we are keeping waiting lists for each course in case of any cancellations. It is still worth contacting Mai by email mai@skovflet.dk with your workshop preferences and we will be in touch if any places come up.

If you are interested in attending Weaving by the Sea 2024 do sign up for 'Early Bird' newsletter.

Wednesday, 22 February 2023

2022 Gallery page now online...

As we look forward to Weaving by the Sea 2023 it's a pleasure to look back at our 10th anniversary event last year, our new gallery page is now updated here: 2022

Further details coming soon for this year's course and booking details.....

Thursday, 5 January 2023

Weaving by the Sea 2023 - course dates

It's that time of year again, we are busily preparing the programme for Weaving by the Sea 2023 and have some exciting courses in store for you!

Today we can announce the 2023 course dates and the addition of a new tutor for this years event. Following the success of our 10th anniversary celebrations last year and the demand for more workshop places at Weaving by the Sea we have decided to extend the event over three workshop periods and to invite François Desplanches as our guest tutor.

Our good friend François is a highly regarded basketmaker and an excellent teacher based in the Dordogne region of France, François specialises primarly in willow basketmaking techniques. You can find François on Instagram here: desplanches.vannerie

Our Weaving by the Sea 2023 workshop programme is as follows, further course details will be published soon and booking opens in early March 2023. Sorry no pre-booking!

Please sign up to our 'early bird' mailing list if you would like further booking details: 'early bird'.

Weaving by the Sea 2023

Sunday 24th - Tuesday 26th September

Workshops with Mai Hvid Joergensen, Mònica Guilera and Tim Johnson

Thursday 28th - Saturday 30th September

Workshops with François Desplanches, Tim Johnson and Mònica Guilera

Monday 2nd - Weds 4th October

Workshops with François Desplanches, Tim Johnson and Mai Hvid Joergensen

Once again we are delighted that Hotel Cesar in Vilanova i La Geltru, Catalonia will be our 2023 venue.

See you at Weaving by the Sea 2023!

Friday, 25 March 2022

Celebrating 10 years of Weaving by the Sea

Weaving by the Sea 2022 will be our 10th anniversary!

Ten years of welcoming basketmakers from all over the world to share our enthusiasm for our craft, learn new skills and create new friendships. This year we are delighted to present our range of workshops including a selection of regular favourites and new choices representing our range of interests, personal work and research: Workshops and Booking 2022

Thank you to all our faithful 'early birds'!

All of our 2022 workshops sold out in just a few hours on Monday morning following our booking schedule announcement to our Early Bird Weaving by the Sea mailing list. If you would like to receive advance information for 2023 please sign up here: 'Early Bird Mailing List'.

Although our workshop have sold out we do keep waiting lists for all the workshops in case of any cancellations, if you would like to be added to a waiting list please contact Mai with your choice of workshop: Mai Hvid Jørgensen: mai@skovflet.dk

We look forward to greeting all of our 2022 participants to Hotel Cesar in Vilanova i La Geltru, let's celebrate!