——August 9-10——Swedish Picnic Basket with Jarrod Dahl
Swedish Split Willow Picnic Basket with Jarrod Dahl
Related Courses: Basketry Courses
Registration closes July 28 so the instructor can prepare materials.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 9-10, 9am-5pm
Optional: Friday, August 8 Craft Night & Potluck Meet & Greet with Jarrod at 6pm BYOB
Description: Learn to make a plank bottom basket with split willow weavers designed after a basket we found in an antique shop in Stockholm, Sweden. This style of basket is an interesting combination of materials and techniques.
We will spend time splitting and prepping willow for weavers, assemble base and uprights, weave, and complete the basket with a track border. We will cover different splitting and preparation techniques for willow and look at the variety of split material basket styles from Scandinavia.
This class is for basket lovers, basket weavers and woodworkers alike.
Bring:
Pruning Shears (Okatsune recommended)
Optional: Craft knife (Morakniv 106 or 120 recommended)
Jarrod Dahl received a grant in 2024 to study Scandinavian Basketry through the American Swedish Foundation.
Workshop fee: $225
Materials fee: $45 payable to the instructor during class
JARROD DAHL is a full-time craftsperson, teacher, and writer who has worked with wood professionally since 1996. He runs Woodspirit Handcraft with his wife Jazmin, where Jarrod designs, makes, and sells woodenware. He specializes in turning green wood into handled cups, bowls, plates, and boxes and carving a wide variety of knife finished cooking and eating utensils. Jarrod teaches handcraft nationally and internationally as well as trains apprentices. He has studied and researched woodenware in museum archives in the US, Sweden, UK, and Japan. His designs have been influenced by these traditional everyday objects. Jarrod has extensive knowledge of harvesting and processing natural materials, forging and using hand tools, and making a wide variety of craft from basketry to canoes. He takes a philosophical, historical and pragmatic approach to making, teaching, and advocating for handcraft. Jarrod writes a blog, and has written for Popular Woodworking and Mortise & Tenon Magazines. He made two DVDs, The Art of Spoon Carving (with Popular Woodworking) and One Tree about green woodworking recorded in Japan. He also has a forthcoming book with Lost Art Press on Spring Pole Lathe Turning. He lives in Northern Wisconsin. www.woodspirithandcraft.com instagram: @jarrod__dahl @woodspirithandcraft
Swedish Split Willow Picnic Basket with Jarrod Dahl
Related Courses: Basketry Courses
Registration closes July 28 so the instructor can prepare materials.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 9-10, 9am-5pm
Optional: Friday, August 8 Craft Night & Potluck Meet & Greet with Jarrod at 6pm BYOB
Description: Learn to make a plank bottom basket with split willow weavers designed after a basket we found in an antique shop in Stockholm, Sweden. This style of basket is an interesting combination of materials and techniques.
We will spend time splitting and prepping willow for weavers, assemble base and uprights, weave, and complete the basket with a track border. We will cover different splitting and preparation techniques for willow and look at the variety of split material basket styles from Scandinavia.
This class is for basket lovers, basket weavers and woodworkers alike.
Bring:
Pruning Shears (Okatsune recommended)
Optional: Craft knife (Morakniv 106 or 120 recommended)
Jarrod Dahl received a grant in 2024 to study Scandinavian Basketry through the American Swedish Foundation.
Workshop fee: $225
Materials fee: $45 payable to the instructor during class
JARROD DAHL is a full-time craftsperson, teacher, and writer who has worked with wood professionally since 1996. He runs Woodspirit Handcraft with his wife Jazmin, where Jarrod designs, makes, and sells woodenware. He specializes in turning green wood into handled cups, bowls, plates, and boxes and carving a wide variety of knife finished cooking and eating utensils. Jarrod teaches handcraft nationally and internationally as well as trains apprentices. He has studied and researched woodenware in museum archives in the US, Sweden, UK, and Japan. His designs have been influenced by these traditional everyday objects. Jarrod has extensive knowledge of harvesting and processing natural materials, forging and using hand tools, and making a wide variety of craft from basketry to canoes. He takes a philosophical, historical and pragmatic approach to making, teaching, and advocating for handcraft. Jarrod writes a blog, and has written for Popular Woodworking and Mortise & Tenon Magazines. He made two DVDs, The Art of Spoon Carving (with Popular Woodworking) and One Tree about green woodworking recorded in Japan. He also has a forthcoming book with Lost Art Press on Spring Pole Lathe Turning. He lives in Northern Wisconsin. www.woodspirithandcraft.com instagram: @jarrod__dahl @woodspirithandcraft
Swedish Split Willow Picnic Basket with Jarrod Dahl
Related Courses: Basketry Courses
Registration closes July 28 so the instructor can prepare materials.
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, August 9-10, 9am-5pm
Optional: Friday, August 8 Craft Night & Potluck Meet & Greet with Jarrod at 6pm BYOB
Description: Learn to make a plank bottom basket with split willow weavers designed after a basket we found in an antique shop in Stockholm, Sweden. This style of basket is an interesting combination of materials and techniques.
We will spend time splitting and prepping willow for weavers, assemble base and uprights, weave, and complete the basket with a track border. We will cover different splitting and preparation techniques for willow and look at the variety of split material basket styles from Scandinavia.
This class is for basket lovers, basket weavers and woodworkers alike.
Bring:
Pruning Shears (Okatsune recommended)
Optional: Craft knife (Morakniv 106 or 120 recommended)
Jarrod Dahl received a grant in 2024 to study Scandinavian Basketry through the American Swedish Foundation.
Workshop fee: $225
Materials fee: $45 payable to the instructor during class
JARROD DAHL is a full-time craftsperson, teacher, and writer who has worked with wood professionally since 1996. He runs Woodspirit Handcraft with his wife Jazmin, where Jarrod designs, makes, and sells woodenware. He specializes in turning green wood into handled cups, bowls, plates, and boxes and carving a wide variety of knife finished cooking and eating utensils. Jarrod teaches handcraft nationally and internationally as well as trains apprentices. He has studied and researched woodenware in museum archives in the US, Sweden, UK, and Japan. His designs have been influenced by these traditional everyday objects. Jarrod has extensive knowledge of harvesting and processing natural materials, forging and using hand tools, and making a wide variety of craft from basketry to canoes. He takes a philosophical, historical and pragmatic approach to making, teaching, and advocating for handcraft. Jarrod writes a blog, and has written for Popular Woodworking and Mortise & Tenon Magazines. He made two DVDs, The Art of Spoon Carving (with Popular Woodworking) and One Tree about green woodworking recorded in Japan. He also has a forthcoming book with Lost Art Press on Spring Pole Lathe Turning. He lives in Northern Wisconsin. www.woodspirithandcraft.com instagram: @jarrod__dahl @woodspirithandcraft
