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We are excited to bring you further, mindful and creative botanical workshops with a twist! Combining natural materials with carefully selected plants to produce beautiful art pieces for you to enjoy or gift to others!
Working together, Lorraine and Renée will bring you different choices of Willow & Botanical workshops. You can spend the day with us and make two botanical art pieces or create one in either a morning or afternoon workshop, the choice is yours.
Firstly, you will make a Sphere/Ball using brown Willow. You will learn how to use a free weaving technique to build up the layers of the sphere, ready for planting up.
We will show you how to then create a planting pouch to insert inside the ball from a selection of seasonal plants provided.
Join us in combining two activities into one! Firstly, you will make a wreath base from a selection of Willow. Using garden twine you will learn how to weave a web within your wreath to create the beginnings of a dream catcher!
You will be shown how by adding a selection of small succulents you can transform your dream catcher into a beautiful hanging botanical decoration that can brighten up any wall, inside or out!
In some Native American cultures, a dreamcatcher or dream catcher is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. It originates in Ojibwe culture as the “spider web charm”, used as a protective charm for infants.
The art of Kokedama literally translates from “koke” meaning moss and “dama” meaning ball. Kokedama are born out of the Bonsai planting tradition. According to the Japanese, the green ball of moss is translated as maternal love and charity. The spherical shape of the ball is believed to add credence to the plant’s naturality while creating peacefulness and the Zen spirit.
At the Kokedama Workshop Renée will guide you in moulding and binding your two Kokedama using houseplants, moss and twine. At home you can either display your Kokedama on a tray or dish or suspended in a ‘string garden’.
We do not currently have any published dates for this workshop, if you would like to arrange a private event or add your name to a waitlist please make contact.
Fabulous willow weaving workshop! Lorraine and Debbie were super friendly, easy to follow and were happy to help through every technical stage. Great fun and highly recommend.
What a lovely way to spend a morning – Willow making with a fun, helpful and great teacher. Definitely will return for more.
We had a really lovely afternoon at this event. We were taught how to do basic willow weaving to make lovely, useful, bird feeders. Lorraine was a great hostess and teacher, generous with her time and expertise. The setting was relaxing and peaceful. I will be booking again soon.
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