Here are four versions of one basic twined basket pattern I’ll be teaching this Saturday. Using different materials gives lots of variety. The largest basket here, done in an open weave, uses grapevine. The smallest is mostly lavender stems, ivy and akebia vine. The two middle sized are ivy, Iris leaves, New Zealand flax, cedar limb bark, with various herbs and flower stems. The class sample is the smaller of the two medium sizes shown here. We will have time to complete one basket in class and students will leave with enough material to make another.
