NBO is about learning from one another. In this section, you can read an article about basket making materials or techniques, watch a master class video, or sign up for an online presentation or workshop. If that’s not enough, you can get in touch with a local basketry guild to learn from someone near you!
NBO workshops & presentations
NBO Presents! is a series of live online programs on a variety of basketry topics, makers, and methods.
Sign up to get announcements of upcoming programs
If you missed a live event, you can watch a full video recording!
Articles & videos
NBO Presents: Basketry Now, Revisited – Replay Available Now
This panel revisited the National Basketry Organization’s biennial exhibition, Basketry Now 2025.
NBO PRESENTS: “It Seems as if we are two in the world”
NBO PRESENTS In partnership with Studio Art Quilt Associates and Surface Design Association. If you missed this wonderful program, you can view the recording right here: “It Seems as if we are Two in the World” In 2003 Carlos Fontales decided to buy a small video camera and travel through some of the most remote villages […]
Resources for Teaching Fees and Contracts
These recommendations are the results of over a full year of discussions held by the informal Teachers Zoom group, facilitated by NBO.
Capturing Your Work With Photography
Here is a helpful guide authored by Marcia Young that appeared in a past issue of the NBO Magazine. You’ll find tips and ideas to really make photography a useful part of documenting and marketing your work.
Weaving with Willow Bark (video)
Follow the processing and weaving steps as Jennifer Heller Zurick teaches a willow bark weaving class at the 2013 NBO Biennial Conference: Tradition & Innovation in Basketry VII.
NBO Presents: Pat Hickman “Baskets Holding”
During Virtually Woven 2022, Pat Hickman presented this lecture during our closing program. Pat and NBO have decided to make this lecture widely available.
On-demand classes
Bark Basketry Basics: On-Demand Basket Weaving Class
Get 75% off because you found us through NBO by using “NEWSUBSCRIBER75” as the Coupon Code on the checkout page.
Inside this course, you’ll learn how to harvest, prepare and store bark, use a variety of simple hand tools to make the process easier and faster, and weave bark using simple techniques like plaiting, twill and twining.
Information and registration at Matt Tommey – Woven Sculpture from Nature
Rib Basketry Basics: On-Demand Basket Weaving Class
Get 75% off since you found us through NBO when you use “NEWSUBSCRIBER75” as the Coupon Code at checkout.
Inside this 25-lesson course you’ll learn how to harvest and prepare materials for weaving, create 4 baskets, including the Egg Basket, Oriole Basket, Hen Basket, and Harvest Basket, weave beautiful lashings, including the God’s Eye, 1/2 God’s Eye, and 3-point lashing, insert ribs to create unique and interesting shapes, and add whimsey and interest to your baskets with vines.
Information and registration at Matt Tommey – Woven Sculpture from Nature
List your on-demand class here
NBO members who teach on-demand basketry classes (either online on in-person) can list their classes here. Contact us to get started!
Find more basketry workshops and presentations by master basketweavers in our Basketry Calendar.
Basketry guilds
NBO works to support the many basket weavers’ guilds throughout the United States and Canada. These guilds are the bedrock of basketry education, offering a local or regional welcome to people interested in basketry. Find one near you!
List of basket weavers guilds in North America
Museums & schools
Browse our list of museums and schools of interest to the basket weaving community.
List of basketry museums and schools
Basketry+ Magazine
Subscribe to Basketry+, our quarterly magazine documenting the work of outstanding basket makers in America.
NBO members receive a free subscription to Basketry+. Join NBO today!
Over/Under e-newsletter
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