Join Edmund Hawan for a basket weaving workshop in Garter Lane Arts Centre on November 18th, at 9.30-5.30 pm.
Learn more about Willow and its characteristics, and how Edmund uses a basic round fruit type to show the ways to shape, form and finish a simple willow basket.
Edmund lives in Bleantis in the Comeragh mountains. He has been making working/functional baskets for 23 years. He was taught basket work firstly in Lismore, County Waterford at the old railway station where many hand skill courses were run. Since then, he has made baskets of all descriptions including log, flower, bread and dough proving, baby’s cribs, and shopping baskets to name but a few, all of which come in varying shapes and sizes.
Returning to Bleantis after 19 years of living and working on the remote Scottish islands of Rhum and Muck, with a spell in the Shropshire market town of Ludlow as the basket maker on the market there, Edmund is currently at Lismore Farmers Market each Sunday at the Castle and each Saturday at Merrie’s pub pop-up market in Dungarvan10.30 till 12.30. Edmund’s trademark is the willow dragonfly, one of his most popular crafts over the past 20 years.
More info: https://garterlane.ie/events/7432/