29th & 30th August 2026.

Rugeley, Staffordshire.

There are still weekend and day tickets available for the amazing annual Tear Up Festival of Willow and Fibre – and workshops available to book only on the day. Weekend tickets are £70 and day tickets £35. Go to the Tear Up Festival website to book day tickets

Workshops available to book on the day include:
Interlacing, Chaos technique, Coiled rope, Tray making, Hazel basketry, Willow & Rush, Sculpture and much much more. See the Weekend workshops page for more detail.

There will also be lots of experts demonstrating techniques from coracle making to lobster pots, spelt basketry to furniture making.

Bring a basket to the Basketry Roadshow Exhibition. The brain child of the immensely talented quartet of Mary Lewis, Clare Revera, Alisha Davidson & Gill Jones.

Every basket has a history and a story to tell, and we want to celebrate these at this year’s Tear Up.
Bring a favourite vintage or special basket to Tear Up to display in the Basketry Roadshow Yurt
Has this basket inspired you to weave another basket? Bring that as well!
Tell the story of the baskets. What do they mean to you?
Meet the basketry research panel to maybe find out more ….