Black Ash Berry Baskets with Guest Instructor Penny Hewitt

Make your own berry basket and in the process learn one of the oldest crafts in human history.

For  thousands of years, in every culture, people have been crafting  beautiful, durable and useful vessels from the materials at hand. Carry  on the tradition and take home a beautiful, durable and useful basket  made from local and responsibly harvested, hand pounded black ash logs.

This  is a great introduction to the extraordinary qualities of the black ash  tree. Students will experience all the steps in the process, from a  demonstration of pounding the log, to weaving their own unique, square  to round basket with an optional leather strap.

Included is a discussion on identifying, choosing and harvesting a tree.

Additional Materials fee of $40 to be paid to instructor day of class. 

Penny Hewitt