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Inspired by Scandinavia’s rich basketry traditions this 4-day class will explore a few of the many forms of split material baskets found in Sweden and Norway. In Scandinavia, thin flat “splints” were commonly used to make baskets for the activities and needs of rural farm life. We will learn about where to gather, harvest and process larger willow saplings into rough splints and spend a good portion of the time splitting and prepping willow. Choose from a plank bottom handled Swedish picnic basket, a small plank bottom backpack with leather straps, a skruk ( a Swedish type of basket woven backwards from rim to base) or a vedmeis, a Norwegian two handled utility basket.
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