White Oak & Skeined Willow Basketry

Take a dive deep into Appalachian white oak basketry. Explore two different methods for materials processing and sustainable harvesting. Break down a white oak log together and split and shave down round willow rods to make flat, skeined weavers. Finally, combine them to weave a 10-inch, hen-style, frame basket together. While this class is suitable for all levels of basket maker, much hand strength, stamina, and familiarity with whittling with a carving knife is required. $

$275

Amy Krone is an artist living & working in the forest of the Catskill Mountains in Upstate, New York. Her project, Cambium Lost Arts, is one dedicated to the revival of dying or forgotten practices of traditional craft. Currently, her focus is centered around the practice of hand-split white oak basketry in the Appalachian style. She is a self taught basketmaker, passionate about revitalizing & modernizing traditional crafts—teaching all that she has learned to others, not only to keep these dying arts alive, but to help them to thrive.

Jacob McKean co-instructor.