Repairing a Broken Basket

Repairing a Broken Basket

Isn't it annoying when your favourite basket breaks, usually its the top that gets brittle and breaks off in places. The good news is you don't have to throw it away. If you come on a basket weaving day you will learn how to make a fancy three-rod wale border. Check out this video below to see how you can repair a broken basket. I made this video when I realised one of the tipis here had a broken log basket and guests were due in that evening! Thankfully it only took twenty minutes to repair it and guests were none the wiser their pretty basket had been in bits earlier.

Join us on a course here at the farm to learn how.

Go to 'Attended Courses' on the home page : www.wildharvest.org

Hope you enjoy the video, 

Di x

P.S Learn with me and help keep sustainable education alive?!

 


 

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Di has been running Wild Harvest School for almost two decades...

Beginning with running foraging walks for the Forestry Commision and National Parks, she started teaching basket weaving and rag rugging from the kitchen table. Being a single mum with three small children she ran walks and courses and sold hand-made crafts when she could, taking the children to the woods with her to work. Having had an unusual upbringing herself, being raised by her soldier grandfather and hippy scientist father; self-reliance was taught from an early age.

After leaving academia to raise her own children alone and off-grid ...

in a similar basic lifestyle to the one the men raised her in... she gave up everything to move into a caravan on the North Yorkshire Moors where they had no loo or electric. They lived from what was around them for nearly three years, making and gathering much of what they needed. Digging up cow dung for fires, or chopping wood and weaving baskets or making rag-rugs, with a toddler in a sling. Today Wild Harvest School has been operating across two farm venues, near York, and is proud to have trained tutors covering much of the U.K. We teach adults via fun group activities but also run day courses, walks and retreats

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