Transitions – An Ongoing Operation on Change.

Proud to be one of the award-winning finalists.

Crafting Europe is an initiative of nine European craft organisations that strives to build the crafts sector by providing craftspeople with the knowledge and skills to grow and strengthen the industry.

The Homo Faber Guide places craftsmanship in Europe at your fingertips.

Basketclub and Karimoku invite a group of twelve Basketclub designers to think about the uses behind traditional Japense woven baskets and how they may be reimagined today.

Workshop data.

It is a fascinating time for makers: traditional crafts and skills are back in vogue, while at the same time new technologies are developing at lightning speed.

Enhancing a closer relationship between people and trees.

Showing some of the best in European basketmaking today.

The Global Eco Artisan Awards is an international platform which recognizes artistic excellence, visualizes endangered crafts and glorifies eco-friendly cultural practices of the artisans in the world.

A special collaboration.

I enjoy the process of teaching and meeting a variety of interesting people from different backgrounds.

I am a traditional trained basketmaker and learned the foundations of my craft at the German basketry school.

The art of tapestries has without any doubt a marvelous narrative purpose.

Exquisite willow skein work is also applied in the little baskets found in dolls houses.

Basketclub was founded in 2020 as an Instagram-based initiative. It plays by a simple set of rules.

Woven Willow consists of eight different objects based on the contemporary handwriting of Scholten & Baijings, in perefect harmony with a traditional Dutch 17th century weaving technique.

Vessels woven from a starch-based plastic which is industrially-produced, but naturally biodegradable.

Craft starts with attention for the past. I use my knowledge of the traditional crafts when reconstructing an old crib or restoring grandma’s bag.

Amandine David: “I want to explore learning as a design approach”

The designers of ANNY& are skilled in designing. Our craftsmen are very good at making things.

Exquisite willow skeinwork is also applied in the little baskets found in dollshouses.

In a world where children are swiping their iPhones and 3D printers are building houses, it is our mission that the art of true craftsmanship will survive, and that it will thrive.

Wickerwork from all over the world inspires Lichtenfels

As material forming techniques weaving with willow rods and weaving with textile materials have more similarities than differences.

Oversized hats.

Leather is a noble material.

Check out my miniature baskets selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade basketry pieces for any style dollhouses.

I am a specialist in fine skeinwork, a very labor intensive and almost extinct basketry technique.

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