Basketweaving for Beginners: 20 contemporary and classic projects using natural cane

by Sylvie Begot

Overview

Create 20 simple, modern basketry projects for use inside and outside the home.

Create twenty basketweaving projects from interior decorations to garden accessories, in shapes both classic and unusual (such as egg shapes and napkin rings).

Author Sylvie Begot uses coloured rattan to update what is a traditional craft, and uses simple techniques which are extensively explained through clear step by step photographs and instructions.

Anyone can create one of these basketry projects - no special skills are required, and the baskets can be made at home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782217008
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.13(w) x 10.31(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Creative from a young age, Sylvie Begot put her interest in crafts on hold to train as a paramedic, only to return to her interest in basketry during maternity leave for her third child. She then began to share her passion for basketweaving through workshops.

Sylvie's need to source and create specific teaching materials led her to publish her first book on the subject, Cane Basketry (Vannerie en rotin) in France in 2007. Prior to the publication of Vannerie Creative (Basketweaving for Beginners), Sylvie published another four books on basketry in her native France.

Sylvie Begot now runs basketry workshops for schoolchildren as well as for trainee occupational therapists, in Lyon, France. She has a particular interest in basketry using natural products such as cane, willow and rattan as well as upcycled materials.

Table of Contents

Essential Rules & Advice 6

Working rules 8

Storing cane and soaking times 8

Your working position 8

Varnishes 8

Glossary 9

Techniques 10

Bases 12

Round slath base 12

Oval slath base 15

Crossover base 16

Josephine knot base 17

Weaving the sides 18

Randing weave 18

Two-rod slew 18

Pairing weave 18

Triple weave 19

Splicing 20

Borders 21

Scallop border 21

Three-rod plain border 21

Trac border 24

Other features 24

Hoops 24

The 'God's Eye' 25

Finishing techniques 25

Projects 26

Chapter I Bags & Bangles 28

Country basket 30

Handbag 34

Bracelets 38

Knitting basket 44

Chapter II For the Kitchen 48

Bread basket 50

Serving mat and napkin rings 54

Utensil pot 58

Fruit bowl 62

Pedestal bowl 66

Chapter III For Children 70

Star 72

Pencil pot 76

Egg 80

Basket on wheels 84

Chapter IV For the Garden 88

Bird feeder 90

Candle holder 94

Egg basket 98

Chapter V For the Home 102

Plant pot holder 104

Wall basket 108

Mirror 112

Storage basket 116

Toothbrush holder 120

Cotton ball box 124