Mas de Barberans in the south of Catalonia to visit the Museu de la Pauma - palm basketry museum and attend a special palm brush making workshop.
1st Courses 28th, 29th, 30th September 2018
2nd Courses 2nd, 3rd & 4th October 2018
- Openwork Oval Baskets with Mai Hvid Joergensen
- Mediterranean Nansa Fish Trap Technique with Mònica Guilera
- Twining in World traditions with Tim Johnson
Monday 1st
October Special Excursion & workshop
Visit to Mas de
Barberans & the Museu de la Pauma
2nd Courses 2nd, 3rd & 4th October 2018
- Catalan with a Twist with Mai Hvid Joergensen
- Lidded Baskets in the Catalan Rural Tradition with Monica Guilera
- Contemporary Netting and Knotting with Tim Johnson
Below: Mediterranean Nansa Fish Trap Technique with Mònica Guilera
Below: Catalan with a Twist with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Below: Contemporary Netting and Knotting with Tim Johnson
2018 Course Details
1st week
Friday 28th - Sunday 30th September 2018
Openwork Oval Baskets with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Openwork willow baskets provide the perfect combination of strength and lightness ideal for shopping baskets and other utility baskets around the home. Combining a thick willow hoop at their base with scalloms and a fitched base and siding, your baskets may be finished off with a variety of traditional borders and handle styles. Mai will teach oval baskets with a handle with the additional option of round and oval trays with various borders as time allows.
Mediterranean Nansa Fish Trap Technique with Mònica Guilera
The Mediterranean is home to a beautiful and distinctive technique of weaving used by fishermen to make a variety of fishing baskets and traps. In Catalonia ‘Nansa’ fish traps were made in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on the kind of fish they wanted to catch, the traps were usually made in the winter with a very tough kind of rush (Juncus acutus) as well as split cane (Arundo donax) and olive stems.
In 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.
Twining in World traditions with Tim Johnson
Twining is one of the most useful and widely distributed basketmaking techniques that may be used to combine a wide variety of soft materials. This course taking inspiration from Tim's collection of baskets from around the world will give you the skills to make a variety of forms with several open and closed twining structures and several different beginnings.
This years day out will include a different palm basketry workshop - details to be announced, and the chance to see the current exhibitions in the museum.
2nd Week Tuesday to Thursday 2nd - 4th October 2018
Catalan with a Twist with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Lidded Baskets in the Catalan Rural Tradition with Monica
Guilera
Contemporary Netting and Knotting with Tim Johnson
One of our most ancient technologies - knotted netting has been used for thousands of years to make a wide variety of traps, bags and clothing. This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to learn the basic netting techniques to make open flexible structures - and then explore their creative potential for a wide variety of contemporary baskets, textiles and sculptural projects.
The emphasis of this course will be on experimentation and exploring the properties of combining knotting techniques with diverse materials to create your own innovative work.
Friday 28th - Sunday 30th September 2018
Openwork Oval Baskets with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Openwork willow baskets provide the perfect combination of strength and lightness ideal for shopping baskets and other utility baskets around the home. Combining a thick willow hoop at their base with scalloms and a fitched base and siding, your baskets may be finished off with a variety of traditional borders and handle styles. Mai will teach oval baskets with a handle with the additional option of round and oval trays with various borders as time allows.
Mediterranean Nansa Fish Trap Technique with Mònica Guilera
The Mediterranean is home to a beautiful and distinctive technique of weaving used by fishermen to make a variety of fishing baskets and traps. In Catalonia ‘Nansa’ fish traps were made in a variety of shapes and sizes depending on the kind of fish they wanted to catch, the traps were usually made in the winter with a very tough kind of rush (Juncus acutus) as well as split cane (Arundo donax) and olive stems.
In 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.
Twining in World traditions with Tim Johnson
Twining is one of the most useful and widely distributed basketmaking techniques that may be used to combine a wide variety of soft materials. This course taking inspiration from Tim's collection of baskets from around the world will give you the skills to make a variety of forms with several open and closed twining structures and several different beginnings.
Monday 1st
October Special Excursion & workshop
Visit to Mas de
Barberans & the Museu de la Pauma
Following last year's very enjoyable trip to Mas de Barberans we offered an optional special day trip to the south of Catalonia, home
to the palm
basketry museum - Museu de la Pauma.
This years day out will include a different palm basketry workshop - details to be announced, and the chance to see the current exhibitions in the museum.
2nd Week Tuesday to Thursday 2nd - 4th October 2018
Catalan with a Twist with Mai Hvid Joergensen
'Catalan
with a Twist' takes the special design features of the traditional
Catalan willow base and combines it with a variety of special weaving
structures and diverse materials to create unique baskets of your own
design with a variety of borders, handles and straps. Special
Mediterranean materials like olive, cane, rush and palm may be combined
with colourful willows to create texture and pattern.
Highly adaptable to a wide variety of agricultural and domestic needs the rural
Catalan
basketmaking tradition has many distinctive and beautifully designed
baskets. This course will focus on lidded baskets that were made to
transport a variety birds and animals and can be equally useful today as
shoppers and picnic baskets where extra protection is preferred.
Monica will teach the special combinations of Catalan base, willow and cane sidings and the special rope border followed by a variety of handles and lids choices as you design your own basket.
Monica will teach the special combinations of Catalan base, willow and cane sidings and the special rope border followed by a variety of handles and lids choices as you design your own basket.
One of our most ancient technologies - knotted netting has been used for thousands of years to make a wide variety of traps, bags and clothing. This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to learn the basic netting techniques to make open flexible structures - and then explore their creative potential for a wide variety of contemporary baskets, textiles and sculptural projects.
The emphasis of this course will be on experimentation and exploring the properties of combining knotting techniques with diverse materials to create your own innovative work.
