In this weekend, we will create a beautiful medicine piece by weaving with cordyline and/or pandanus spiralus (a unique premium weaving fibre from Arnhem Land) in a twining technique, including stringmaking. I will also teach you how to make a coiled lid for your basket (or you can make a separate coiled basketling if you prefer). We will also play with my natural plant dyes, dyebaths and ironwater to make leaf- and fibre prints inbetween the weaving process.

It’s best to attend both days as they build on each other, however, single day options will be available for those who cannot make both days.

Day 1 is for the twist weave technique only, and ends at 3pm. For all other participants, the day ends at 5pm. We will wrap our dye plants into the cloth. 

Day 2 begins with a coiling technique instruction, and making string. We will boil the eco-print bundles in the dye pots, and unwrap them to see our masterpieces.

The workshop will be facilitated through means of a ceremonial space where you will be nurtured and held safely in a circle of like-minded beings, sharing and breathing and creating together. Trauma informed, please let me know by private communication if you would like your circumstances to be known, and gently held.

Beginners are celebrated.

This is an opportunity to experience the ancient art of basket weaving as a deeply mindful and contemplative practice. It is a space of sharing, creating, being and breathing, conducted through ceremony and celebration of life. Using natural materials from the land, you will learn to weave individual strands of fibre together to form a whole creation, while recognising and acknowledging the mirrors and metaphors that bind us together with nature and each other. Like a weave within a weave, this has the power of revealing a way of being that is nurturing, growthful, enlightening and honouring of the energy of creation. Together we will weave baskets that hold in their fibres all of the stories we share, flowing in symphony with the songs of nature as they unfold around and within us.

Extra pandanus fibre will be available to buy on the day, if needed for future weaving projects or expansion of your current one.

Please bring a chair, cushion or mat to sit on, and lunch to share.

Tickets can be booked online or by emailing me to organise a direct deposit / cash.

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