Basket Weaving - Basic Level

Learn traditional and sustainable basket weaving using rattan cane that lasts years and retains its shape. You can create up to three functional baskets to take home.

Start with a basic shape and weave a base using the pairing technique, opening out and finishing with a border. Then gradually learn more complicated weaving like randing and wailing to control the cane, forming sides + another border finish. If time permits and you’re up to the challenge, use your new techniques to create a small basket with different shapes and finishes.

This course runs for two sessions, over two consecutive weeks at our Murwillumbah campus and is suitable for beginners or as a refresher.

TRAINER

The talented Bonny Shore’s art practice is mainly in fibres, textiles, stitch and print. She began teaching rattan basket weaving about 40 years ago at TAFE and community art centres, and later at the factory of a master basket weaver/cane furnituremaker Hilary Eviston in Brisbane. Some of her sculptural forms were also exhibited at Gregory Street Art Gallery.

Bonny holds a Bachelor and Masters in Arts, Diploma of Visual Arts, and a Graduate Diploma of Education and Training of Adults. “I love teaching people how to make baskets that are strong and sustainable, and preserving an ancient art.”

MATERIALS

All rattan weaving materials are supplied.

Please bring the following items of your own:

• steel knitting needle
• old saucer
• pair of side cutters
• pair of round nose pliers
• string
• own bucket for water (optional).