Employing English and French techniques, participants will make a number of different willow baskets including an English fruit sieve, a French casserole, and a Swiss berry basket. Time permitting, the course will conclude with a field trip, tour and tasting at Heather Sanft’s family’s winery and berry farm. Participants can U-pick blueberries to fill the baskets they’ve created and also see her living willow lattice fences.
Dates: July 9-11, 2007, 3-day course Monday-Wednesday
Dates: July 9-13, 2007, 5 day course Monday-Friday
Time: 9:30-3:30
Place: Old Newtown School, Industrial Arts Classroom, Lunenburg
Tuition: $175 Cdn. for 3-day / $295 Cdn. for 5-day
Supply Fee: $30Skill Level: Intermediate.
Heather Sanft, a highly respected basketmaker, has honed her craft over the course of 20 years. She has apprenticed in France and England, and is the eighth generation of a founding Lunenburg, Nova Scotia family. Although she has utilized a variety of materials for her baskets, the majority are made from willow. Her university degrees are in anthropology and museum studies and her lifelong passion is the study of Native American Indian basketry.
More of Heather's work can be seen at www.canada-wine.com
