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Celtic Knot Baskets - Hepple Self Help Group
Chairman's Report Northumbria Basketry Group 10th Anniversary Celebration Exhibitions
Introduction to Round Baskets - Etal
Making a Willow Lobster Pot, November 2010
Making a Willow Sphere - March 2015
Supporting the RNLI 26th October 2010
Supporting Washington Wetlands Centre - Press Release
The Whittondean Willow Plot Story
Visit to Sweden September 2010
Visit to Sweden September 2011
Weekend Basket Course 25/26 September 2010
Willow Nativity, St Cuthberts, Bedlington - Christmas 2010
The focus of the September 2010 self help group meeting at Hepple was on making Celtic Knot baskets. Starting with laying out six sets of six 7 foot long rods the sequence of weaving the basket is shown in the attached images. To make the weaving easier two types of rods were used, brown and buff. At first the tips are pulled through the weaving and butts are pulled through at the end. The sequence for weaving the second round of weaving is as follows:
1. Over 1 and under 1.
2. Over 1 and under 2.
3. Over 1 and under 3.
4. Over 1 and under 3.
5. Over 2 and under 3
6. Over 3 and under 3.