Zig Zag

Zig Zag Podcast Basketry Book Reviews! Scrape the Willow Until it Sings The words and work of Basket Maker Julia Parker by Deborah Valoma

A bonus interview with the wonderful Paulina Adamska of the Serfenta Association. Serfenta shares, promotes and manages knowledge about the intangible heritage of basketry in Poland. They offer workshops to bring craft experiences to everyone and they offer events about the meeting point between cultural anthropology, craft and the market. Paulina is a cultural anthropologist educator and Serfenta...

Ane Lyngsgaard has been making baskets since 1993. She has taught basketry across Europe, North America and Africa. Using old techniques, she weaves in new and innovative ways, exhibiting her work and collaborating with her basketry collective, Baskets 4 life. In 2022, she founded the app, Baskets 2 day, an online basket school that shares a variety ofweaving techniques with the basketry community...

Tom Delaney is a traditional Irish basket weaver based in County Mayo and the founder of Ould Crafty. Formerly an archaeologist, Tom spent several years travelling and working abroad before returning home to Ireland, where he combined his love of heritage, craft, and storytelling into a business that’s both a passion and a pleasure. Today, he focuses on reviving traditional Irish basket-making tec...

History & Folklore of pack baskets. In this episode, I share three folk tales where pack baskets play a central role. In these tales, there are pack baskets woven out of snakes, women who turn into spiders and one story from the perspective of a basket that has been in a family for three generations. The longer show notes are full of some incredible photos and videos! For the full show notes,...

Woven Thresholds is the vision of basket maker & interdisciplinary artist Mo Hohmann. Mo is devoted to willow and tending the living tradition of basket weaving. She is a mother, willow basket/casket maker, teacher, lifelong apprentice of birth, death, burial, and blood mysteries, reverent farmer, and threshold worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels she weaves...

Steen Madsen discovered basket making through his early love of old handcrafts such as Stone Age flint knapping, rope making, hide tanning, and wood carving. In 1979, he was introduced to basket making while working with 7500-year-old Danish Stone Age eel traps made of willow. Soon he was growing his own willow and teaching workshops in basket making. For the last few decades, Steen has been a ful...

Ayeen is a mixed media folk artist. Raised up by the generous tending of tide pools, her mothers hands, laughter, good food, and high desert storms. Her work is an expression of all the beauty she hopes to create and celebrate in this holy life!  Her current muses and places of focus are willow basketry and land stewardship through process based watershed restoration.  Ayeen’s website: https://aye...

Delia is a basket weaver and teacher, making her way towards a handmade life in the Unicoi mountains of Southern Appalachia. She directs School of the Greenwood, a nonprofit working to restore connection to the land through creative empowerment. She passionately explores the fibers of place - hunting the limits of all that is possible in weaving material culture for a rooted and regenerative futur...

Paulina Adamska is a cultural anthropologist, educator and the Serfenta Association leader. Serfenta started from a deep research, they crossed thousands of kilometres to discover why basketry is awesome and how it is done - in Poland and all over the world. Serfenta creates a new ways for tradition in a modern world for the future of craft.🕸️ Serfenta Website: https://serfenta.pl/en/ Serfenta You...

In this episode of Zig Zag you will hear a brief history of willow basketry in Europe. I will share how witches and willows are entwined through language, some history of wicker basketry in WW2, songs about willow and more! For the full show notes please click here Many thanks to: The Armagh Rhymers for the opening and closing music. The Serfenta Association for the song 'Lucimia, Lucimia'...