Weavin’ Wicker Woman Blog

I’ll be up in Grand Marais, MN this weekend, demonstrating my crafts of chair seat weaving and basketry at the North House Folk School’s Wooden Boat Festival. This is always such a fun and interesting […]

Be sure to check out the Contemporary Basket 2005 exhibition going on now until July 15th at the del Mano Gallery in Los Angeles, CA to see the excellent work by top-notch basket artists including

We’ve been having a lively conversation thread on the Seatweaving and Wicker Repair Discussion Board Forum lately, trying to deside how this rush seatweaving design was created and what materials were used. Examine the pictures

For those of you that are interested in belonging to an actual seatweaving organization, I would suggest you visit The Basketmaker’s Association (BA). Although the name is a bit deceiving, they also feature chair seat

Welcome Helen Cribbs, owner of Peerless Rattan in Springfield, Ohio as a new advertiser on the Cane & Basket Suppliers page of WickerWoman.com Since 1993, the Peerless Rattan shop has provided quality seatweaving raw materials,

Thought you all might enjoy reading this newspaper article from the Clanton Advertiser, about an 82-year old Alabama pine needle basket teacher, Elena Cost. Guess you’re never too young to enjoy basketweaving, are you?

Don’t let your wicker furniture end up like the one in the photo above! With spring finally arriving and summer not far behind, you are probably wondering how to care for your wicker furniture, right?

We had a wonderful time at the 10th Anniversary Headwaters Basketry Workshop in Bemidji, MN over the weekend of April 16, 17 & 18th. The attendance was a bit lower than previous years, but everyone