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Basket Weaving Workshop | Blended Monkey Studios | Sunday 6 July 2025

    • Basket Weaving Workshop | Blended Monkey Studios | Sunday 6 July 2025

    £125.00Price
    FULL-DAY WILLOW WEAVING WORKSHOP
    Sunday 6 July 9.45 am – 4.00 pm

    £125.00 including refreshments, lunch, all materials, use of equipment on the day, tutoring & certificate of completion.
     
    This full-day group workshop with our guest willow weaver and basket maker, Karen Bek, is suitable for all skill levels. 
     
    Learn how to make a shallow round or oval frame basket using preset frames and a variety of willows, allowing you to create a unique and colourful basket.
     
    You will learn how the frames are made and then make and attach the ribs of the basket, securing them with extra fine willow and then weaving around the frame, adding further ribs as the weave progresses.
     
    The end result will be a shallow frame basket that can be used as a serving platter, bread basket or fruit basket.
     
    This FULL DAY BASKET WEAVING EXPERIENCE will be held in the peaceful setting of our Blended Monkey Studios on the Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border. 
     
    Numbers are limited to ensure you get plenty of 1-2-1 tuition. 
     
    This basket weaving experience is suitable for 16+. 
     
    About a week before your workshop date, we'll e-mail you again with more details about parking etc.

    Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and also a lovely lunch - tailored to meet all dietary requirements.
     
    All students will be provided with a certificate of completion.
     
    This would make a fabulous CRAFTY GIFT for someone - so drop us a line and we can post out to you/the recipient a complimentary personalised gift certificate for this experience🎁
     
    The full-day workshop includes:
     
    - Materials & use of equipment on the day
    - Refreshments (tea/coffee/soft drinks/cake) & lunch - catering to all dietary requirements
    - As we limit the number of people, you get to have some 1-2-1 tuition and the maximum benefit from a day with no distractions
    - Certificate of completion
     
    We also offer accommodation in the form of our Crafter's Retreat cabin subject to availability or we can advise of other local B&Bs.
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    • Booking, Cancellation & Refund Terms & Conditions

      • The purchaser of the workshop may cancel the workshop up to 2 weeks before the workshop date with a full refund.

      • If we need to cancel a workshop at short notice for reasons beyond our control, such as illness or mechanical breakdowns, the first option is to rearrange a mutually convenient date or receive a refund. In the event of cancellation for any reason, we are unable to reimburse travel, accommodation or any other expenses that you may incur in relation to the cancelled course.

    • Meet our Guest Tutor

      "I weave contemporary and traditional willow baskets, incorporating other foraged, found and coppiced materials to create baskets that showcase the properties of natural materials.

      Craft work can contribute to a more sustainable and environmentally protective future. Gaining and passing on basketry knowledge and skills is a key part of my work.

      ​My previous work in social and therapeutic horticulture has influenced how I now teach basketry, using the craft to promote wellbeing and therapeutic practices. My workshops are designed to encourage the practice of slow and meaningful craftwork and I deliver workshops throughout East Anglia."

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