Basketry Book Review: Scrape the Willow Until it Sings

Katy Bremer is a Scottish basketmaker and artist who loves to make baskets of all shapes and sizes, as well as making masks and sculptures, and pushing the limits of what basketry techniques are capable of. She is also a medieval reenactor and takes great pleasure in chatting to anyone who will listen about baskets and their history.Katy’s Website: https://www.katybremerbasketry.com/Katy’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katybremerbasketry/Support the musicians from this episode: ⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii⁠Full Show notes: ⁠https://www.woodlandweaver.com/zigzag12🕸️

Zig Zag Podcast Basketry Book Reviews! Scrape the Willow Until it Sings The words and work of Basket Maker Julia Parkerby Deborah Valoma

A bonus interview with the wonderful Paulina Adamska of the Serfenta Association. Serfenta shares, promotes and manages knowledge about the intangible heritage of basketry in Poland. They offer workshops to bring craft experiences to everyone and they offer events about the meeting point between cultural anthropology, craft and the market. Paulina is a cultural anthropologist educator and Serfenta association leader. An experienced craft instructor and business woman, she gained her knowledge by studying at the university of arts and crafts in Poland. She has studied with outstanding masters and artists in Poland and abroad. Over the last seventeen years, Paulina has traveled extensively to research and record traditional basketry practices. In this episode, she walks us through her basketry research and the many stories and songs her and her team collected for their book Koche, which means basket in Polish. Listen in to her research journey along the Vistula river and dive deeper into the basketry culture of Poland.Serfenta Website: https://serfenta.pl/en/Serfenta Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@serfenta/videosSerfenta Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Serfenta/Serfenta Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serfenta/?hl=en

Ane Lyngsgaard has been making baskets since 1993. She has taught basketry across Europe, North America and Africa. Using old techniques, she weaves in new and innovative ways, exhibiting her work and collaborating with her basketry collective, Baskets 4 life. In 2022, she founded the app, Baskets 2 day, an online basket school that shares a variety ofweaving techniques with the basketry community. Ane’s Website: https://pileriet.dk/ Ane’s facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anelyngsgaard Ane’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anelyngsgaard/?hl=en Baskets2day App: https://baskets.today/eng/index.html Support the musicians from this episode: https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-iiFull Show notes: https://www.woodlandweaver.com/zigzag9 🕸️

Tom Delaney is a traditional Irish basket weaver based in County Mayo and the founder of Ould Crafty. Formerly an archaeologist, Tom spent several years travelling and working abroad before returning home to Ireland, where he combined his love of heritage, craft, and storytelling into a business that’s both a passion and a pleasure. Today, he focuses on reviving traditional Irish basket-making techniques, working mainly with willow and natural materials rooted in rural life and history.⁠https://www.ouldcrafty.com/⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ouldcrafty/⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaJa6talLP45ClGid9gk0gQ⁠Support the musicians from this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii⁠⁠⁠Full Episode Show Notes: ⁠⁠woodland weaver.com/zigzag8⁠

History & Folklore of pack baskets. In this episode, I share three folk tales where pack baskets play a central role. In these tales, there are pack baskets woven out of snakes, women who turn into spiders and one story from the perspective of a basket that has been in a family for three generations. The longer show notes are full of some incredible photos and videos! For the full show notes, click here. Many thanks to: The Armagh Rhymers for Zig Zag's Theme music. - BandcampThe Halluci Nation- Electric Pow Wow - BandcampMaura O’Connell- Down by the Sally Gardens - BandcampRam Thapa- Leykali He He Choyako Doko- https://sacmusicinternational.com

Woven Thresholds is the vision of basket maker & interdisciplinary artist Mo Hohmann. Mo is devoted to willow and tending the living tradition of basket weaving. She is a mother, willow basket/casket maker, teacher, lifelong apprentice of birth, death, burial, and blood mysteries, reverent farmer, and threshold worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels she weaves. She learned to weave willow baskets in the Coast Range of Oregon and later in Ireland - connecting her craft with the life of plants and ancestors. There she learned about willow, their growing rhythms and patterns, the harvesting and curing of the plant for weaving, and teaching others to weave. Mo is a guest on S’Klallam land in rain shadowed Port Townsend, Washington where cormorants dive and eagles tell glacial memory sky stories with ancestral lines from the west coast of Ireland and Main River lands in Germany.woventhresholds.comhttps://www.instagram.com/woventhresholds/www.coyotewillowschoolhouse.comwww.funeraryartisanscollective.orgSupport the musicians from this episode: ⁠⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii⁠Full Episode Show Notes: woodland weaver.com/zigzag-6

Steen Madsen discovered basket making through his early love of old handcrafts such as Stone Age flint knapping, rope making, hide tanning, and wood carving. In 1979, he was introduced to basket making while working with 7500-year-old Danish Stone Age eel traps made of willow. Soon he was growing his own willow and teaching workshops in basket making.For the last few decades, Steen has been a full time basket maker and basketry teacher. He keeps busy growing willow, teaching basket making around Europe and the US, educating basketry apprentices, and weaving baskets for museums, film and theatre productions, and collectors. Steen has also written two books about basket making: Flet med Pil, a beginner book in Danish and Baskets with Corners about square basket work, which has been translated to English.Steen's Website: https://www.steen-madsen.dk/Steen's Intsagram: https://www.instagram.com/steenhedegaard/Support the musicians from this episode: ⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-iiFull Episode Show Notes: woodlandweaver.com/zigzag-5

Ayeen is a mixed media folk artist. Raised up by the generous tending of tide pools, her mothers hands, laughter, good food, and high desert storms. Her work is an expression of all the beauty she hopes to create and celebrate in this holy life!  Her current muses and places of focus are willow basketry and land stewardship through process based watershed restoration. Ayeen’s website: https://ayeentelopa.com/Ayeen's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waxwingandwillow/Support the musicians from this episode: https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-iiWatershed crew links:https://swiftwaterdesign.com/https://www.naturesengineers.com/

Delia is a basket weaver and teacher, making her way towards a handmade life in the Unicoi mountains of Southern Appalachia. She directs School of the Greenwood, a nonprofit working to restore connection to the land through creative empowerment. She passionately explores the fibers of place - hunting the limits of all that is possible in weaving material culture for a rooted and regenerative future. 🕸️Delia's website: https://www.deliafian.com/Delia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delia_of_the_greenwood/?hl=enSupport the musicians from this episode:https://allisonandtatiana.bandcamp.com/track/nancy-blevinsShow notes: woodlandweaver.com/zigzag-3🕸️