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Fibre & Clay in the Wild

Fibre & Clay in the Wild

by Ruby Taylor | Sep 1, 2018 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Basketry, Wild Pottery

In conversation with No Serial Number Magazine, a publication which explores environmental sustainability through traditional crafts and innovative design. We discuss my practice: my relationship to the landscape where I forage my materials, and about coping with the...
Looped Cordage: Netted Bags

Looped Cordage: Netted Bags

by Ruby Taylor | Apr 4, 2018 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Basketry

After a day of making cordage from foraged plant fibres, my grubby fingernails show evidence of all the separating and scraping. Once you’re committed to the steady, repetitive nature of prepping and twining cordage, it’s a deeply satisfying process. So...
Wakehurst: Space Between

Wakehurst: Space Between

by Ruby Taylor | Aug 26, 2017 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wakehurst 2017

Space Between is a recently commissioned, site-specific woodland sculpture at Wakehurst, (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).  It’s situated in Pearcelands Wood, their newly-opened ancient woodland. It was commissioned as part of Wakehurst’s Wild Wood Festival,...
Making an Ash Pack Basket

Making an Ash Pack Basket

by Ruby Taylor | Aug 7, 2017 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wild Basketry

For ages I’ve been wanting to make a pack, or back, basket from wood splints. They’re best made in the spring when the sap’s rising, so earlier this year I took a trip to the woods near Bath for a few days to make one. There’s a long tradition...
Foraging Plants for Wild Basketry; weaving a connection between land and self

Foraging Plants for Wild Basketry; weaving a connection between land and self

by Ruby Taylor | Mar 9, 2017 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Wild Basketry

‘Plants are integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.’ (Robin Wall Kimmerer) There’s an arable field margin under two ancient oaks that is species-rich with...
Wild Pottery: Clay- digging your own

Wild Pottery: Clay- digging your own

by Ruby Taylor | Nov 1, 2016 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Pottery

One of the things that makes my Wild Pottery courses ‘wild’ is that we dig our own clay from the land What is Clay? Ask this of anyone and they’ll most likely reply ‘mud’. But there’s a bit more to it than that. It’s made up of one or more clay minerals with traces of...
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