Instructors: Linda Lemieux and Jeremy Weiss
Location: South Devon Steiner School, near Dartington, South Devon
Cost: £130
Times: 9:30 – 4:30 each day
Discover what can be harvested from hedges to use for fibres to make cordage, pouches, baskets and more.
Devon’s ancient hedges are wonderfully diverse ecosystems providing humans, wildlife and livestock with a huge range of valuable products and services. On this course you’ll learn how history, management and ecology come together to create these amazing hedges.
You’ll learn how and when to harvest materials from the hedge, like willow and holly for frame baskets, how to prepare rush, nettle and bramble to make cordage, and bark to weave simple woven pots and pouches.
Linda Lemieux, from Wood and Rush, is a professional basket maker and rushworker who loves making baskets from materials foraged from her home on Dartmoor. Linda says that sourcing materials from hedgerows helps to lighten her ‘footprint’ and connect her to her natural environment and ingeniously crafty ancestors!
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