WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
RKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The course will revolve around square basketry techniques & styles. These skills will improve your overall basketmaking.
During this three-day workshop, you'll create a square work hamper incorporating key square work techniques essential for your basket-making toolkit.
This may take the form of a chest hamper, a blunt cornered Hamper or a hamper incorporating specific techniques you wish to learn.
Techniques that can be covered: scalloming, corner posts, blunt corners, continental stake up, chest hamper lids, blunt corner chest lids, various partition styles, bases, fastenings, hinges, lids, handles, made to measure work, hoops, waling variations, fitching, square corner borders, blunt corner borders.
Some knife skills are required.
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate to Advanced
$950 + hst
Eddie Glew
Instructor Bio: A Yeoman Basket Maker & Sculptor Eddie weaves dreams in his workshop based in Derbyshire UK.
He never imagined that basket making would become his career and passion. After spending two years training with his father Peter Glew, as well as attending courses Peter had arranged for Ed before he passed, Ed spent a further two years honing his craft.
After Ed gained a full scholarship through The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust he went on to study under Sally Goymer for a further two years. Ed absorbed every bit of knowledge and experience he could from Sally, learning about precision basket making, made to measure skills and expertise in square work.
Ed’s true passion and purpose is making useful and timeless items using the skills he learnt from his father Peter, Sally and many others. He loves the challenge of working on bespoke commissions and bringing abstract ideas to life, working with creativity and imagination.
Best of all he gets to share his skills and teach the next generation of willow weavers. Passing on the baton as his father did for him.
Some of Ed’s clients for his custom work include Fortnum & Mason, Disney, J.W. Anderson, Alton Towers, Asprey’s of London, Nando’s, The National Trust, Kirsty Allsopp, BBC, Channel 4, Warwick Castle, Windsor Castle, The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers, The Garnered, CLEAVE Court Jewellers
“We are but guardians of this ancient craft”.