Anne and Alan Thomas
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I started collaborating with fabulous leather-worker Becs Ball from Bosorne Leatherwork in 2021 and I am absolutely loving the work we are doing together.
This has developed into a classic shape - oval in a variety of sizes. The combination of willows - especially the contrast of Flanders Red and White willows is a favourite of mine.
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A beautiful, small, oval willow basket handwoven in Cornwall in Black Maul, Flanders Red and White willow varieties from Somerset. Finished off perfectly by gorgeous Australian Nut English leather handles supplied by my friend Becs from Bosorne Leatherwork.
Base 30x17cms. Top 23x15cms. Height 25cms.
There are many thousands of different varieties of willow grown right across the world. The most commonly used for basketry are Salix triandra, Salix viminalis and Salix purpurea - the most commonly used being Salix triandra 'Black Maul'.
Black Maul in itself can be used in four ways - as the standard brown basket willow; boiled and stripped of it's bark which produces the lovely honey-coloured buff willow; as white willow - where Black Maul is cut in the winter and left to stand in shallow trays of water until it starts to shoot - then stripped of it's bark to leave a white coloured rod; and steamed willow - steamed in tanks which darkens it to a chocolate colour.
Willow baskets should last for many years and have traditionally been handed down from generation to generation. With our centrally heated homes they need to be given a little more care. Once or twice a year, put your basket outside in the rain - or give it a gentle scrub with some water and a kitchen brush. This will clean the dust off it and refresh the willows. This is especially good for log baskets which can dry and crack from the heat of a fire.
Designed by Anne & Alan Thomas in Cornwall
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