Twined Basketry Workshop

Friday 6 & Saturday 7 June, 10.00 - 16.00 (Two day course) 

Three patterned baskets with a stem sticking out of the middle one

Tickets: £160 (Members £128), includes lunch & refreshments

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Polly Pollock is back at the Pitt Rivers Museum to deliver another popular basketry course, this time teaching how to make twined baskets.

During this 2-day workshop you will have the opportunity to look at twined basketry on display in the Pitt Rivers Museum. The workshop will take place behind the scenes in the Conservation Laboratory, where you will be able to see more examples from their reserve collection and Polly will also bring more examples from her personal collection.

All materials and equipment will be provided.

Polly Pollock

Polly Pollock has been making and teaching basketry for many years - some of her early teaching days were at the Pitt Rivers Museum and she was a tutor at the first ever Oxford Summer School and for many years after that. She has exhibited her work widely throughout the UK and has been a tutor at the City Lit in London, where she still teaches on their unique 2-year part-time basketry course.

Polly's personal work combines basketry and stitched textile techniques, exploring themes of homemaking and nurture, damage, protection and repair. She works a lot with paper yarns, which she dyes using gentle eco-dyes to give soft and gentle colour palettes. Polly tries to ensure her work, albeit in small ways, avoids contributing to the mounting levels of waste in the world today.

Polly is a member of the Basketmakers' Association, Oxfordshire Basketmakers and the Textile Study Group. She currently has work in the Textile Study Group's exhibition Making 50.