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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...
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...
Stonehenge: Neolithic Basketry

Stonehenge: Neolithic Basketry

by Ruby Taylor | Jul 18, 2015 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Stonehenge / Heritage, Wild Basketry

During the Neolithic time at Stonehenge, there would have been willows growing on the banks of the river Avon, which ran right by the houses situated  at nearby Durrington Walls. These are the Neolithic dwellings that  have been reconstructed at Stonehenge visitors...
Stonehenge: Neolithic houses for Neolithic basketry

Stonehenge: Neolithic houses for Neolithic basketry

by Ruby Taylor | Jun 25, 2015 | All Journal Entries, Foraging, Stonehenge / Heritage, Wild Basketry

I’m delighted to have been invited by English Heritage to run some staff training at Stonehenge in Neolithic-style basketry. They recently constructed a number of Neolithic style dwellings on site (pictured left)… and it’s there that I’ll be...
Desperate Measures (foraging grass for basketry)

Desperate Measures (foraging grass for basketry)

by Ruby Taylor | Jun 19, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Courses, Foraging, Wild Basketry

I’m standing in a large patch of shoulder-high wild grasses on the edge of a midsummer Sussex field. I’m here foraging grass for basketry. They’re in full flower, stashed full of pollen, and I’m a hay fever sufferer. Hmm… To one side is a...
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