Coiled baskets with Polly Pollock
Spend a day with weaver Polly Pollock learning coiled basketry and making a beautiful little basket |
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Polly's work combines basketry and stitched textile techniques, exploring themes of homemaking and nurture, damage, protection and repair. Working mostly with paper yarns which she dyes using gentle eco-dyes, often produced from her vegetable peelings, tea leaves, etc, to give soft and gentle colour palettes, Polly tries to ensure her work, albeit in small ways, avoids contributing to the mounting levels of waste in the world today.
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In this one-day workshop Polly will introduce you to coiled basketry, a method of making baskets found around the world. It's one of basketry’s most versatile techniques offering a multitude of possibilities for making formal baskets right through to abstract sculptural forms.
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Coiling is different from other basketry techniques in that it is a stitched technique (as opposed to woven), and has many references to constructed textiles. Coiled basketry is made by a ‘core’ element being wrapped and stitched with another material, which joins the coils (rows) together as they spiral outwards and upwards from a central point, to make an enclosed basket, a wider open basket, a mat, or more experimental form.
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Date: Wednesday 12th November 2025
Time: workshop days run from 9.30am until 4.30pm Cost: £95 The cost of the workshop includes morning coffee and homemade biscuits, a light seasonal lunch and a pot of tea with a delicious cake. Also included are all the materials you'll need to make one coiled basket. Please note: Places are limited and are available on a first come, first served basis
Booking implies that you agree with our terms and conditions for in real life workshops. You can read them here: The Small Print |
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