Beginning Coiled Pine Needle Basketmaking Workshop
2-day Workshop at the Pittsboro Gallery of Arts
with gallery member and instructor Jody Nash
Learn how to prepare pine needles for coiling, how to start a basket, basic coiling techniques and stitches, shaping, and finishing your trinket basket. Everything you learn on your small basket can be applied to making a larger basket.
No Experience Necessary
Where: Pittsboro Gallery of Arts, 44-A Hillsboro St., Pittsboro, NC 27312
When: Saturdays, August 17 & 24, 2024 (two 4-hour sessions)
Time: 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Class Fee: $140 (Pay to Pittsboro Gallery of Arts at registration)
Materials Fee: $15 (Cash, Check, PayPal to instructor) , $10 (returning students)
Register early - class size limited to 8 people.
About the Course:
Jody has been making coiled pine needle baskets for over 12 years. Basketmaking can be a deeply meditative and solo experience. On the other hand, working in a group setting offers a great way to commune with other creatives.
This 2-session class is suited to the basketmaking-curious as well as those with some experience. Students will coil a small basket using long-leaf pine needles, various other grasses, embroidery thread, and synthetic sinew, all built around a ceramic center. The skills learned in making the small basket will be everything needed to make a larger basket.
