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Anniversary Celebrations

BA Summer Meeting Rothbury

Birch Craft Weekend

Caroline and Helene's Visit

Celtic Knot Baskets - Hepple Self Help Group

Chairman's Report Northumbria Basketry Group 10th Anniversary Celebration Exhibitions

Emily Davison Sculpture

Giant Bee Skeps

Harbottle Show

Introduction to Round Baskets - Etal

Joe Hogan Workshop

Learning Revolution

Making a Willow Lobster Pot, November 2010

Making a Willow Sphere - March 2015

Making Rush Baskets

Somerset Visit, November 2010

Supporting the RNLI

Supporting the RNLI 26th October 2010

Supporting Washington Wetlands Centre - Press Release

The Whitton Willow Plot Story

The Whittondean Willow Plot Story

Visit to Sweden September 2010

Visit to Sweden September 2011

Weaving Our History

Weekend Basket Course 25/26 September 2010

Willow Coal Miner Sculpture

Willow Nativity, St Cuthberts, Bedlington - Christmas 2010

Willow Play Den Images

Workshops - 2010

BA Summer Meeting Rothbury

The Basketmakers Association Summer Meeting

This meeting was hosted by the Northumbria Basketry Group and supported by the Northumberland National Park.

Around 60 basketmakers from around the UK enjoyed a varied and interesting weekend. On the Saturday three workshops were held featuring the making of Celtic Knot baskets, Donkey Creels and Northumbrian Fishwifes Creels. The latter workshop was very popular with twenty people successfully creating creels.

At the Saturday night buffet a welcoming atmosphere and excellent catering were provided by Charlotte Boxall and her team while Northumbrian Piper Sue Lyons and her colleagues provided entertainment.

Sunday was a busy open day with members of the public joining in the activities. Visitors could watch demonstrations of a wide range of baskets being made, purchase baskets and join in the hands on activities. The latter included the making of leaping willow fish. A report circulating a few days later suggested that a few of these had escaped to a garden pond in Rothbury.

Altogether this was a wonderful weekend, with a happy and welcoming atmosphere, full of activity.

Northumbria Basketry Group is funded by the Northumberland Uplands LEADER programme.

J A Winlow

6 July 2010

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