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Willow weaving is an exciting and rewarding craft for anyone who wants to reconnect with the natural world. This essential book gives all the information and tuition needed to get started and includes projects on sculpture, basketry and folk-art decorations. Thirteen projects are set out in clear and detailed stages, ranging from practical baskets to planters, lifelike scultpures and wreaths. Advice is given on adapting recipes and designing your own baskets.Topics covered: Basic techniques and basketry terms are explained and clearly illustrated, along with selection and preparation of materials; Chapters describe four different basketry forms, each with a different set of structures and skills to learn; Sound, practical tips throughout to smooth your progress and help overcome difficulties. Beautifully illustrated with 160 colour photographs and 17 drawings.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
WILLOW BASKETRY AND SCULPTURE
Jo Hammond
THE CROWOOD PRESS
First published in 2014 by The Crowood Press Ltd Ramsbury, Marlborough Wiltshire SN8 2HRwww.crowood.com
This e-book first published in 2014
© Jo Hammond 2014
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978 1 84797 682 6
DEDICATION
For my parents, who said I could do anything I set my mind to.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank my husband Martin for buying me the book that started it all off, and for his dedicated hard work building the workshop. Special thanks to Bunty Ball for support, advice, and letting me loose on her basketry collection, and to the Norfolk Basket Company, Peter Dibble and Robert Goodwin for their beautiful photos. Thank you to all the lovely customers and suppliers I have dealt with, and warm appreciation for anyone who has been to one of my classes - you have taught me more than you can imagine. Thanks also to Suffolk Craft Society, for encouragement and inspiration.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 MATERIALS, TOOLS AND PREPARATION
2 BASIC TECHNIQUES AND TERMINOLOGY
3 FLATWEAVE PROJECTS
4 HOOPS AND FRAME BASKETRY PROJECTS
5 STAKE AND STRAND BASKETRY PROJECTS
6 FREEWEAVE PROJECTS
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER INFORMATION
INDEX
A willow planter in the garden.
INTRODUCTION
My aim in writing this book is to inspire and enable a reader, who has no previous experience, to make a willow basket. In the same way as I was inspired by a book, I want you to see that you can pick up the simplest of tools, buy a bundle of twigs and make something you can be proud of.
More than twenty years ago, in an enviable but penniless situation, I was recently out of college, and living with my partner in a tied cottage in the middle of a wood. Knowing my interest in crafts, he gave me a basketry book. It laid out some varied and interesting projects for the beginner to try, and a couple of them were called 'hedgerow baskets'. These were to be made from wild twigs and climbers, garden plants or leaves, and the photos really did make them look charming. Suddenly the familiar plants around me had a new potential, and their abundance meant that I could have a go at basketry without having to spend any money.
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!
Lesen Sie weiter in der vollständigen Ausgabe!