Week 1
- 'Catalan Basketmaking' with Mònica Guilera
- 'Wood & Weaving - exploring handles & bases' with Mai Hvid Jørgensen
- 'Exploring Mediterranean Materials - Braid & Stitch' with Tim Johnson
Week 2
- 'Mediterranean Nansa Fish Trap Technique' with Mònica Guilera
- 'Catalan with a twist' with Mai Hvid Jørgensen
- 'Finding Freedom - Contemporary Basketmaking with Mediterranean Materials' with Tim Johnson
2014 Course Details
Catalan Basketmaking with Mònica Guilera 24th - 26th September 2014
Catalan Basketmakingis a distinctive craft tradition with a great variety of baskets that have fulfilled the everyday needs of the Catalan people for centuries.Using a unique base design and combining Willow with European Cane(Arundo donax) these baskets are both elegant and strong. During this course you will make Catalan baskets exploring variations in forms, borders and handles and learn how to combine Willow and European Cane.
Wood & Weaving - exploring handles & bases with Mai Hvid Jørgensen
24th - 26th September 2014
Combining wooden bases and handles with weaving has a long tradition in Scandinavian basket making, join Mai Hvid Jørgensen to take a contemporary look at this classic combination. Two different basket designs will be taught over the three day course combining wooden bases and handles sourced in Catalonia with Danish willow and Mediteranean weaving materials such as date palm fronds and esparto grass.
Exploring Mediterranean Materials - Braid & Stitch with Tim Johnson 24th - 26th September 2014 Taking
inspiration from the Spanish techniques of braiding and stitching
esparto grass and palm leaves, you will work with a variety of soft
materials including rush, banana fibre, beaten esparto grass and wild
iris learning a wide variety of plaits or braids. Tim has been
fascinated over recent years with learning these sometimes confusing
braids with up to 13 elements and has found an elegant system to help us
understand them. The braids will then be stitched into a variety of
bags, mats and baskets of your own designs.
Mediterranean Nansa Fish Trap Technique with Mònica Guilera 28th - 30th September 2014In this workshop you will learn to make a ‘cofe’ , a round basket that was used to place the fishing lines and hooks in preparation for line fishing. This basket will give you a good grounding in this very special technique based on triangles and you will have the opportunity to work with willow in combination with other Mediterranean materials and a variety of colourful threads and strings.
Catalan Basket with a Twist with Mai Hvid Jørgensen
28th - 30th September 2014
On this course we will take a starting point in the Catalan base and design our own shapes and surfaces. Combining unusual weaving techniques and a variety of local plant materials including Palm leaves, Rush and European Cane in combination with Danish Willow we will explore the creation of texture and pattern in our basketmaking.
Finding Freedom - Contemporary Basketmaking with Mediterranean Materials
with Tim Johnson 28th - 30th September 2014
Develop
your contemporary basket making skills, ideas and processes - from
first gatherings of materials through to the finished object. Work with a
wide variety of Mediterranean materials such as olive and palm, esparto
grass and oat straw - offering you the chance to combine colours,
textures and weaving properties in an experimental and open ended way.
Tim
has developed his own distinctive techniques over years of creative
practice and is happy to share not only his techniques such as
freecoiling, nailbinding and birdweaving, but also the thinking process
behind their development. Tim's course will accompanied by a slideshow
looking at a variety of inspiring contemporary basketmaking, art
textiles, sculpture and installation.
