Round basket workshop
Fri 14th Nov 2025. West Barn Arts, Dunbar. Spend a lovely day creating a beautiful and useful willow basket to take home with full time basket maker from East Lothian, Jilly Greig. Jilly will show you how to weave a…
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Willow and Wood Fair
25th October 2025 North Berwick Why not come along to watch willow basket makers weave amazing baskets, and wood crafters carve beautiful objects. On show we will have different styles of basketry, string and cordage making using plant fibres, American…
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Weave a Willow Square Platter
16th Oct 2025 City Art Gallery, Edinburgh Using a lap-based method, you will work with a pre-dried square hoop, specially prepared in advance. You’ll learn to build up your square platter with intricate patterns of willow rods and experiment with…
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Artist Open Call
Deadline 21st October 2025 Glasgow Women’s Library Glasgow Women’s Library is seeking expressions of interest from artists with intersectional and socially engaged practices, informed by environmental, class aware and anti-racist approaches, to create up to three new works as part…
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Amisfield Gather-In: A Joyful Harvest Exhibition
20th-28th September 2025. Amisfield Walled Garden, Haddington, East Lothian. This new group exhibition brings together fifteen local artists and makers in a seasonal celebration, set within the beautiful surroundings of the historic Amisfield Walled Garden, near Haddington in East Lothian….
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Alice Spittle, a Māori contemporary artist
October 17th – 19th 2025. West Moss-side, Thornhill, Stirlingshire. ILLUSTRATED TALK Friday 17th October 7.30 – 9.00 pmAlice will take us on an illustrated exploration of Māori Tikanga (culture) and the many art forms that inspire her.Pay what you can,…
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The Basketmakers Association’s Strategic Board Recruitment Campaign
Application Deadline: Sunday 28 September 2025. As part of The Basketmakers’ Association’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations a Strategic Review was recently carried out, which has resulted in us publishing our new 2025 Position Statement, which you can read here: https://basketmakersassociation.org.uk/2025/06/12/ba-position-statement-2025/ Following…
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Forage and weave
17th Oct 2025. Water of Leith Conservation Trust, Edinburgh. Forage and Weave10am -12.30pm, £40 Join Max Johnson as we forage for weaving materials along the Water of Leith, and then return to the Conservation Trust building to weave those materials…
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HARVEST: Contemporary Craft Fair
11th to 19th October 2025. City Art Centre, Edinburgh. This ambitious showroom and multi-disciplinary selling exhibition will present a vibrant cross-section of contemporary craft being made in Scotland today. Featuring the work of 80 exceptional makers from across Scotland, HARVEST:…
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Fitched Strawberry Basket
4th & 5th October 2025. Edinburgh. Students will learn how to make a heritage basket of the British Isles, a strawberry basket, with Anna Liebmann. Suitable contemporary uses include a shopping basket, bottle basket, or allotment/garden/produce basket. Suitable for students…
