Twisting Twigs

Twisting Twigs weaving willow on Haida Gwaii Tamarack Teas & Twigs, is an emerging network for weaving workshops, outdoor education, and ardent foraging.

Weaving: Experimenting with designs, collecting native and non-native species to create vessels for future use has become a way to engage youth with the land in a direct and meaningful way. Taste Based Education: Children and youth workshops that guide students through inquiry based learning outdoors, using senses to find comfort in new or familiar environments. Tea blending, traditional soap making, outdoor skills building.

*Designed for Discomfort* challenges the idea of a bra. Where is the support; our own internal complexes with the spectr...
09/16/2026

*Designed for Discomfort* challenges the idea of a bra. Where is the support; our own internal complexes with the spectrums of masculine, feminine.

A collaborative effort, beading by Hannah Parnell, knowledge and skill for the crown Joan Carrigan, cedar rose Dolly. Willow bra and curation by me.

Model; Ashleigh Berin

Photo; SOPHIE VINO

Offering basket workshops! August (Masset) will be a small group, names drawn from a lottery of who fills out the form (...
07/10/2026

Offering basket workshops! August (Masset) will be a small group, names drawn from a lottery of who fills out the form (attached below). Even if you can't join in August, filling out the form will get your name in the pool for future workshops.

Come 2027 I will have more capacity to offer individualized workshops: one-on-one's, a group of your friends or colleague's and more custom baskets.

Excited to weave with you!!

Form to fill out here: https://forms.gle/9GZXYoiXCBL18SwM9

°°Workshop in August°° !! I'll be gathering your information, interests and desires soon. Stay posted for the digital f...
06/26/2026

°°Workshop in August°° !! I'll be gathering your information, interests and desires soon. Stay posted for the digital form.

Can't wait to weave with you 🩷

05/29/2026

Put down my basket while collecting rocks, and saw this seaweed perfectly dancing alongside. What a pretty world of natural colours n shapes!

I ended up not collecting much in the basket, so maybe I just took her out for a walk to see the sites?

Recreating a backpack after a workshop with many moons ago. Love the colours and a few new patterns to try!
05/15/2026

Recreating a backpack after a workshop with many moons ago. Love the colours and a few new patterns to try!

05/15/2026

Post brain injury, I am learning to drive and socialize again ❤️

Feeling very excited to have spent some time with Joan Carrigan and Glen Kraushar and am so inspired! Both are weaving full-time and creating wildly different vessels and creations from the same plant: willow.

I will share more in the weeks to come ✨

To those folks who I've never met, but are following this account, hello ✨🌺My fingers itch to weave, always, and I'm ent...
05/02/2026

To those folks who I've never met, but are following this account, hello ✨🌺

My fingers itch to weave, always, and I'm entering a decade where I hope to bring more of my love of bending and twisting sticks to many others.

I learned a German/ Welsh style of weaving from my dad at a young age, which I still practice today. I've also been influenced by other styles of weaving, weavers which have shaped the baskets or structures I make today.

I've lived in Haida Gwaii for about six years, and grow a number of varieties of weaving friendly willows, as well as using the native species of willow and dogwood for creations. I feel very grateful to weave, play and live here. Wherever I go, I am always bending branches as weaving patterns have no bounds.

Follow along for hopefully some upcoming summer and fall workshops located on the West Coast of BC.

Please get in touch with questions, ideas, I love when this happens!

Tomorrow on Tow Hill road! I'll be giving away willow and dogwood cuttings, ready to plant, and will have a few baskets ...
03/01/2026

Tomorrow on Tow Hill road!

I'll be giving away willow and dogwood cuttings, ready to plant, and will have a few baskets with me ☺️

A few other local artists will be there with Val too!

1-4pm Sunday

Used up some deer antler buttons for the straps and now we have a basket to purse 💟
01/29/2026

Used up some deer antler buttons for the straps and now we have a basket to purse 💟

Harvest time! These are a few of the tools that make the afternoon breeze by.Recycled bike tubes help bunch the willow t...
01/26/2026

Harvest time! These are a few of the tools that make the afternoon breeze by.

Recycled bike tubes help bunch the willow together
My favorite pruners ( ideally sharpened)

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