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Weekend #9 - Basketry, Fiber Crops and Dyes


  • Instructor Georgie's Home Stanwood, WA US (map)

Location: Raven’s Roots Campus in Ferndale, WA

  • Make a small basket using ponderosa pine needles.

  • Make a small basket using cattail.

  • Make a larger basket using both willow and English ivy.

  • Multiple types of natural cordage and techniques to make it

  • Learn how to harvest willow and tend a willow holt on our farm.

  • Learn how to grow and when to harvest cattail for basket making. All of cattails uses.

  • Growing other basketry crops.