Tear Up Festival
24 & 25 Aug 2024. Newton Farm, Staffordshire. FESTIVAL DAY TICKETS. Saturday AND Sunday are Festival Days and the event is open to Day & Weekend Ticket Holders (£25/£50) There will be a whole heap of workshops you can participate…
Square Basket
5th July 2024. Forres, Moray. Starting with a square or rectangular base, you will be able to make a variety of style of basket during this workshop. Some previous basket making experience is needed and so not suitable for beginners….
Scottish Handcrafts Championships
Congratulations to Malcolm Farrow, SBC Secretary, who won first prize at the Royal Highland Show this year with a beautiful planter based on the theme ‘the four seasons’. His planter was woven with four varieties of willow, cleverly using colour…
Basketmaking in Spain
8th – 15th Oct, 2024. Cervera del Maestre, España. Join us in Spain for workshops in a lovely hill top village. Visit to Pauma museum and day workshop in Pauma, plaiting and cording, then choice of: 3 day workshop with…
Perth Open Studios Summer Exhibition
6th – 27th July, 2024. Perth Civic Hall, Perth. Introduced in 2023, the summer show is an opportunity for our members to exhibit their work for sale in a stunning location open to the general public. This year the exhibition…
East neuk open studios
29th & 30th June, 2024. Fife. The first East Neuk Open Studios event took place in 2003, so this year is our twenty-first birthday. That used to be marked by getting the key to the door, but for the Open Studios,…
Willow platter
19th July. Resonate Together, Alloa, Clackmannanshire. Join us for a meditative weaving class. You’ll learn how to weave a willow platter, using willow basketry methods dating back thousands of years. This is a perfect introduction to basketry. Suitable for beginners,…
Worshipful Company of Basketmakers awards funding to the SBC
The Scottish Basketmakers Circle are delighted to announce that the Worshipful Company of Basketmakers 2011 Charitable Trust have awarded £4,500 funding to the SBC to increase access to expert basketry tuition across Scotland. Funding has been awarded to subsidise the…
Finding Fibres 2024
14th July, 10th August, 7th September 2024. Bolton Village Hall, Northumberland. Three short workshops exploring fibre plants for basketry with Anna Corbett. Each workshop will focus on plants growing in wild and cultivated habitats such as meadows, ponds and marshes,…
Open Studios Stirlingshire
15th – 23rd June 2024. Stirlingshire. Over 30 artists & makers at 18 venues across rural Stirlingshire are holding a programme of Open Studios this summer from Saturday 15th – Sunday 23rd June 2024, when they invite you to come…