Basketry masterclass - Additional techniques for your basketmaking toolbox

Learn additional techniques to develop your basketmaking skills from Yeoman Basket Maker Eddie Glew. Eddie demonstrates how to add partitions, handles, lids, hinges, loops and attachments so you can continue to build on your existing skills in basketry. He shares his own methodology when tackling the adding of accessories to baskets, offering in depth guidance on each stage of the processes.

Ability: Intermediate/Advanced
The minimum time required to watch and respond to the video content and complete the tasks is 1.5-2 hours. The tutor also recommends how you can develop your work further so that you can continue to use the skills acquired on this course for future projects. One year of online access to all of the course content.

Introduction to your tutor Eddie Glew and workshop overview

Getting started

Tools, materials, health and safety

Workshops

Partitions
Wrap around handles
Lids
Hinges, loops and attachments
Conclusion

Course includes:

Access to our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) with course content
A series of instructional videos to work through and repeat at your own pace
Practical tasks to complete
Helpful materials suppliers list
Student online gallery where you can post images of your work for tutors to review and comment on
Support from the college and tutors via email should you need it during the course
Additional notes and ideas

You will need:
Equipment

Tape measure
'Mary Butcher' side cutters
Bodkin
Willow winder
Knife (Eddie uses a Dave Budd knife)
Wrapping iron
Tallow (or vegan option)
Screw block
Sharpie or felt tip pen

*The side cutters Eddie uses are referred to as ‘Mary Butchers’ because Mary introduced the basketry community to this tool in the early 2000s having travelled to Japan and engaged with the basket community in this country.

Materials

5ft Brittany Green willow (salix purporea), or any other willow of similar length and thickness

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Eddie began to learn his craft by first watching his dad weaving traditional English baskets. When he was in his twenties, he spent a focused two years with his dad teaching him everything he knew. He also attended numerous courses and gained a scholarship through The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust to learn from Sally Goymer for a further two years.

Today this allows him to make anything that can be imagined in willow, from made to measure commissions to the Heritage Collection where he puts to use the highly skilled details that Sally taught him. Clients include Fortnum & Mason, Asprey’s of London, Disney, Alton Towers, Nando’s, The National Trust, BBC1, Channel 4 | Warwick Castle, Windsor Castle, and The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers.

In 2015 he was awarded the honour of Yeoman Basketmaker by the Worshipful Company of Basketmakers.He has taught at many venues in the UK and internationally and is keen to share his knowledge and skills with future generations of basketmakers.

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Basketry masterclass - Additional techniques for your basketmaking toolbox

Tutor

Eddie Glew

Course content

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