WILD BASKETS WEAVING WORKSHOP

Join Judith and Richard Wolski to make a melon basket at the Bribie Island Community Arts Centre.

This workshop will involve weaving a Melon Basket which is constructed with a circle inside a circle and stitched together at right angles and then the ribs are added. The basket is made of weed vines which are foraged fibres collected from Sunshine Coast properties, as well as leaves and vines collected from Judith and Richard’s home in Diamond Valley. Everyone will go home with a Melon Basket.

Basket Weaving is one of the oldest traditional crafts practiced in many countries across the globe. The variety of materials used is endless and mainly sourced from plants available in the local environment.

The joy of making a basket using materials collected from the natural environment is both satisfying and exciting. You will be filled with pride as you admire your own handmade basket and the joy you can experience when you give a basket you have made filled, with homemade goodies is a pleasure to give and an immense delight to receive.

The Artists
Developed over the course of 30 years, Wild Baskets is a joint venture of Judith and Richard Wolski. It has grown from their passion to protect the native environment and its inhabitants, together with their enthusiasm to reduce waste.

Judith and Richard have been active members of many conservation groups. While helping relieve the bush of destructive weeds and vines they started experimenting with these plants in their weaving.

Wild Baskets have been involved with education in wildlife protection, organic farming, composting, recycling, waste reduction and have participated in remnant vegetation studies and mapping programs.

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