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Rush at Warwick University
On 5th-7th July 2019 I will be teaching at Warwick University alongside three other fabulous Rush specialists- John Page, Rosie Farey and Brigitte Graham. the weekend has been organised by Clair Murphy and Ruth Salter both of whom are Basketmakers with a passion for Rush; the former compiling and editing a recently published book “Rush […]
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Rush Tote in a Day
Last Autumn a really enthusiastic lovely lady came to weave Cambridgeshire Rushes for the day with the aim of firming up basketry techniques she had learned a few years ago. It was a long hot day with the morning spent weaving a round place mat with a twill centre and chain paired weave with a rolled then threaded away border. […]
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Teaching, teaching and some more teaching
It has been a very busy start to the year with lots of teaching one to one as well as group workshops at Assington Mill in Suffolk and The Museum of Cambridge, formerly the Folk Museum. The latter venues workshop formed part of The Cambridge History Festival and 12 learners made willow platters […]
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Workshop Dates 2019
Here is a list of my teaching dates planned so far for 2019 some of which take place at venues away from my workshop; please book directly with the venues . There are classes taking place at my home workshop for a maximum of 4 people at a cost of £95.00 per person including materials tea, coffee, cakes […]
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Looped Raffia Bag
Looped Raffia Bag Instructions Spring 2016 Please click above for a rather old fashioned experience of a word document with how to make the looped raffia bag. Happy looping or knotless netting. Afternoon shadows from Looped shoulder bag. Interior of Looped bag in exhaust dyed raffia- I had been dying cane in Dylon cold water […]
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Nut & Arc Baskets
Towards the end of 2015 I began to play with the idea of combining rush and willow where the handle bow is already dried into it’s final shape and the main body of the basket is woven about this. The two baskets featured were the results, one twined in rush and the other more […]
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Open Studios July 2016
I will be opening my studio to the public as part of Cambridge Open Studios on the 1st & 2nd weekends in July 2016. If you are interested in watching me weave then I will be in action from 11am-6pm Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd July and then again on Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th July. […]
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Gift Vouchers
If you would like to give someone the present of a workshop or baskets to the value of a set amount or even a specific basket, then email me to discuss your present ideas and I will send a voucher to the lucky person in a small woven item. For example a plaited Rush envelope […]
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Cambridgeshire Baskets
Me(in a home made Fielder dress-Merchant and Mills pattern)and my wares two of which are forming part of the Baskets of the British Isles installation at The New craftsmen in Mayfair.The eel hive that I am holding and a white willow cob used for potato harvesting. Rush Flaggon Baskets as carried by these late 19th […]
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Cambridgeshire Pattern Eel Hives
I researched the local to Ely pattern eel traps more than a decade ago because it was important to me as a maker to record a striking looking and historically interesting basket. Families dwelling in the fens around Ely have supplemented their diets and incomes for hundreds of years by catching eels in baskets called […]
Ely Basketmaker
Some examples of the work I used to do as a Basketmaker.
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Rush at Warwick University
On 5th-7th July 2019 I will be teaching at Warwick University alongside three other fabulous Rush specialists- John Page, Rosie Farey and Brigitte Graham. the weekend has been organised by Clair Murphy and Ruth Salter both of whom are Basketmakers with a passion for Rush; the former compiling and editing a recently published book “Rush […]
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Rush Tote in a Day
Last Autumn a really enthusiastic lovely lady came to weave Cambridgeshire Rushes for the day with the aim of firming up basketry techniques she had learned a few years ago. It was a long hot day with the morning spent weaving a round place mat with a twill centre and chain paired weave with a rolled then threaded away border. […]
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Teaching, teaching and some more teaching
It has been a very busy start to the year with lots of teaching one to one as well as group workshops at Assington Mill in Suffolk and The Museum of Cambridge, formerly the Folk Museum. The latter venues workshop formed part of The Cambridge History Festival and 12 learners made willow platters […]
I no longer work as a Basketmaker but leave this site here as a blog as a record. July 2022
Ely Basketmaker 