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Willow Bread or Storage Basket - Handmade in Cornwall 561

Willow Bread or Storage Basket - Handmade in Cornwall 561

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Welcome to Cornish Craftwork Basketry and Alan Thomas Photography - beautiful rush and willow basketry along with stunning limited edition photographic prints taken mainly in the Devon/Cornwall landscapes.

If you are interested in learning more about taking photographs then feel free to contact us for details of Alan’s 1-1 workshops.

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Round basket-work is the starting point for all future basketry skills. The very basic weaves to produce a round flat mat/pan-stand/small basket might be basic - but getting the weaving neat, even, tight and circular - with the centre checkweave where it should be - beautifully centred - is quite a challenge.

Whilst the sizing, willow variety and weaves are obviously set for this particular basket, baskets can be made to order - for any purpose, to your size requirements and your preferred willow variety. If you have something in mind, please don’t hesitate to contact us with your ideas. Commissions are always welcome.

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This simple basket - woven from a combination of buff willow from Somerset and home-grown Flanders Red willow - has a myriad of uses. I call it a “bits and bobs” basket - keys and bits in the hallway, filled with beautiful soaps in the bathroom, crafting bits in your workshop, or a small bread basket on your kitchen table.

Basketry, considered to be one of the oldest crafts in the world, pre-dating pottery, is found in one form or another in almost every country in the world using whatever local materials are available. Baskets were essential for storing and transporting things and in fishing and agricultural - such as fish traps, crab pots and harvesting baskets. Every village or district would have had its own basketmaker - the last few surviving traditional crab-pot makers are hanging on to an ancient but declining skill.

Even in Roman times, Britain was renowned for having the best basketmakers and the Somerset levels were equally renowned as growing the best quality willow. Constantly monitored by the Heritage Crafts Association, The Basketmakers’ Association and The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers, preserving skills, patterns and techniques is an ongoing project.

Basketry is a beautiful traditional craft - completely absorbing - addictive as my students would say. I love every aspect of it and am constantly challenged by new designs and patterns.

So much can be created from a simple stick of willow.

23 x 12 cms

Designed by Anne & Alan Thomas in Cornwall

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