08/08/2024
Angie Wickenden running this fab workshop. I’ll be going! Never have to buy string again.
Learn how to make a foraged plant material looped bag. Based on cordage making, this is one of the oldest technologies known. Native Australians have been weaving like this for 50K yrs as a living tradition. My own practice is inspired by experimental archaeology when I made nettle cordage to make Bronze Age potter called Trevisker which has cord impressed Decoration, for an episode of Time Team. You will never look at a ball of string in the same way again and maybe never have to buy string again. Embedded in seasonality, landscape and sustainability, this is a mindful, meditative practice which maybe help to provide tools to face the climate crisis. Various plant materials will be covered such as nettle, phormium, crocosomia, dandelion, juncus, fireweed(Chamaenerion angustifolium). To enrol follow the link https://www.flameworks.org/pottery-with-angie #