The willow has carried such an importance from earlier times as the source of basket-making twigs that its place in ordinary life is well established. And it is remarkable how folk memory ...

Willow was the material which baskets were made from, so for this 4th episode of Root & Branch, Brían and Anja interview celebrated basket maker Joe Hogan, about the history and culture of basket ...

3. Willow basket, Emily Derke, not for sale, emilyderke.com 4. Coiled rope basket, Teresa Audet, from $25 to $375, teresaaudet.com 5. Woven birch-bark backpack, Beth Homa Kraus, $375, homa-style.com ...

An often underrated survival tool is the woven basket. This primitive and simple product of bushcraft is so important and useful yet often overlooked in survival discussions. A basket enables a ...

McQueen is a basket maker in the same way Dale Chihuly is a bowl maker. In neither case does the original craft category contain the artist. Instead of form follows function, they believe in form ...

Five millions of dollars' worth of basket willow are annually imported at a cost of from $100 to $250 per ton. It can be produ ced here, it is said, for $50 a ton. Several species are used for ...

That knowledge is "a legacy that was left for us to follow," said Ross, who hosted a willow basket-making workshop at the Brandon Friendship Centre Healing Foundation on Wednesday and Thursday.