Wild Weave with Willow
Wild Weave with Willow
- date: November 16, 2024
- time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
This workshop is part of a 21 Acres Guest Artist Series. We are pleased to make our space available to a handful of local artists to teach their creative classes.
Attention all adventurous weavers…
Who among you likes a little whimsy and is ready to let the willow speak to you?
Who comes back from every hike or neighborhood walk with new natural goodies in their pockets? (a feather…cool rock…you know!)
If this is you…come make a wild weave treasure catcher. We’ll build our foundations using the random weave technique with rehydrated willow rods. Then it’s time to play. If you want to stick with ONLY locally farmed and forage materials we’ll have vines, bark, cedar cones, cordage making supplies, and other fun things to play with. If you want to branch out to other materials, I have half a dozen different natural twines and some surprises to play with.
Every wild weave will be different so let your imagination go wild and tell your inner critic to be quiet! The fun doesn’t end when you leave class…you now have a home for all your wild goodies. Decorate with flowers, seedpods, feathers, mementos – whatever makes you happy. Even change them up with the season!
The class will be held over lunch, so please plan to bring a sack lunch and/or purchase food at the 21 Acres Farm Market.
Maximum workshop size is 10 students, and the minimum age is 18. The fee is $85. Click the link below to register directly with the teacher, Erin Cox.
About your teacher: Erin Cox is a talented and knowledgeable weaver, crafter and artist with a special reverence for plants. She honors the cultural significance of farms, which historically have provided much more than food, including baskets, trellises, medicine, wool, and more. Her upcoming classes will showcase a variety of unique weaving projects, leveraging some plants that you’ll see here on the farm. You can follow her on her budding Instagram account or visit her at www.fieldandforestcrafts.com