Craft in Focus: Basketry – stone wrapping
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About this event
Do you treasure a beautiful stone as a reminder of a walk or a vacation? Bring it to the festival and make it super special!
In this basketry workshop you learn with which knots and windings you can emphasize and beautify the character of the stone. These knots and windings have their origins in Japanese basketry and ikebana.
You can bring your own stone or another special object.
Esmé Hofman (The Netherlands) is a traditionally trained basketmaker and learned the foundations of the craft at the German basketry school. As a modern craftswoman she looks beyond the borders of this traditional handcraft. This gives her the freedom to explore creative possibilities, and generates other ways of making. Her techniques and materials now vary from the traditional to the contemporary using natural stems, leaves, bark, wire, plastics, vellum, paper and lots of colour. She is an internationally renowned and award winning crafts master, working for designers, artists, museums and private costumers.
MINIMUM AGE: 12
Organizer Craft in Focus New York
Organizer of Craft in Focus: Basketry – stone wrapping
After six successful editions in Amsterdam, and a New York pilot in 2017, the Craft in Focus Festival will be making its return to New York, and taking place Saturday, May 18 to Monday, May 20, 2019. The three-day festival will transform Industry City in Brooklyn, NY into an open workspace and presents hands-on workshops for people of all ages, master classes and demonstrations, focusing on master craftsmanship. For more information on the Craft in Focus Festival, please visit our website.
Entrance to the festival is free, classes are ticketed.
May 18, 19, 20, 2019 at Industry City, Brooklyn.
Opening hours: 11am – 6pm, doors open 10.30am
