2022 - our tenth year of Weaving by the Sea in Vilanova I La Geltru, Catalonia, Spain.
Six courses over seven days and a special demonstration and anniversary party.
1st Courses 22nd-24th September 2022
- Round and oval baskets with Zigzag weave, Herringbone weave and 'donkey windows' with Mai Hvid Joergensen
- Fisherman's Basket in Nansa Fishtrap technique with Mònica Guilera
- Cafe Basket in rush with Tim Johnson
Sunday 25th September 2022
Demonstration with Paco Trepat and 10th Anniversary party
2nd Courses 26th - 28th September 2022
Demonstration with Paco Trepat and 10th Anniversary party
- Frame Baskets
with Mai Hvid Joergensen
- Vilanova Fruit Basket in Nansa Fishtrap Technique
with Mònica Guilera
- Rush pockets inspired by Zulu spoon baskets
with Tim Johnson
Week 1 : Round and oval baskets with Zigzag weave, Herringbone weave and 'donkey windows' with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Week 1: Fisherman's Basket in Nansa Fishtrap technique with Mònica Guilera
Week 1:Cafe Basket in rush with Tim Johnson
Special 'Canyis' Demonstration with Paco Trepat
Week 2:Frame Baskets with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Week 2: Vilanova Fruit Basket in Nansa Fishtrap Technique with Mònica Guilera
Week 2:Rush pockets inspired by Zulu spoon baskets with Tim Johnson
Our Weaving by the Sea 2022 workshops:
Workshop Details - 1st week
Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th September 2022
Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th September
This workshop will focus on using round and oval bases in combination with different weaving structures and different colours of willow to create fashionable and functional bags and baskets with leather straps and handles in different colours. Create your own colour and texture combinations to suit your style.
Fisherman's Basket in Nansa Fishtrap technique
with Mònica Guilera
Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th September
This special Mediterranean technique combining rigid and flexible elements in an unusual
triangular structure was used by fishermen to create a variety of fish traps
and baskets according to the local catch and their specific needs. This course
will focus on the attractive and useful fisherman's basket used for their
lunch and tools ready for a successful day on the
water.
Tim designed this basket with coffee and cake in mind! Just the right size for a magazine, sketchpad and a mobile or tablet for a wander to your local cafe. This useful basket combines twining with a lattice stake structure resulting in both lightness and strength, a fold over border and rope handles completes the design. We will work with Reedmace (Typha latifolia) giving you the opportunity to become familiar with this commonly available material.
Sunday 25th September 2022
Vilanova Fruit Basket in Nansa Fishtrap Technique
with Mònica Guilera
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September
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 Vilanova Fruit Basket inspired by Monica's research into the diversity of the Vilanova tradition. Masters of their craft, fishermen created a wide variety of designs in the nansa technique for domestic as well as fishing usage. This basket combines a special star base with nansa technique sidings and a bundle border, you will gain a good grounding in this special technique based on triangles combining willow with a variety of colourful threads.
Rush pockets inspired by Zulu spoon baskets
with Tim Johnson
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September
Cafe Basket in rush with Tim Johnson
Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th September
Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th September
Tim designed this basket with coffee and cake in mind! Just the right size for a magazine, sketchpad and a mobile or tablet for a wander to your local cafe. This useful basket combines twining with a lattice stake structure resulting in both lightness and strength, a fold over border and rope handles completes the design. We will work with Reedmace (Typha latifolia) giving you the opportunity to become familiar with this commonly available material.
Sunday 25th September 2022
Special celebration of our 10 years of Weaving by the Sea
Workshop Details - 2nd Week
Workshop Details - 2nd Week
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September 2022
Frame Baskets
with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September
with Mai Hvid Joergensen
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September
Frame or rib baskets were traditionally made all over Europe with a variety of materials such as willow, hazel and spruce root and their shapes and proportions varied according to their size and function. Taking inspiration from these traditions you will learn how to control the shape and weaving to create beautiful shoulder bags and baskets that are both useful and stylish.
You will work with a variety of willows including some of Mai's own Danish home grown harvest, there will also be the option to work with willow bark in varied colours combining the traditional frame basket structure with a contemporary random weave.
with Mònica Guilera
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September
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 Vilanova Fruit Basket inspired by Monica's research into the diversity of the Vilanova tradition. Masters of their craft, fishermen created a wide variety of designs in the nansa technique for domestic as well as fishing usage. This basket combines a special star base with nansa technique sidings and a bundle border, you will gain a good grounding in this special technique based on triangles combining willow with a variety of colourful threads.
with Tim Johnson
Monday 26th - Wednesday 28th September
Traditionally the Zulu peoples of South Africa made a wide variety of basketry objects for their domestic use alongside those used for gathering, trapping, costume and shelter. This workshop gathers inspiration from rush 'spoon baskets' collected by Antoinette Powell-Cotton (1915–1997) in the 1930's now kept in the collections of the Pitt Rivers and Powell-Cotton Museums in England.
These subtly beautiful baskets combine an unusual method of creating a spiralling plain weave structure with twined and knotted beginnings and endings and a variety of decorative embellishments.
In this workshop we will use a variety of soft plant materials with a variety of coloured cordage to create our own designs respectfully paying homage to tradition.
