Blanket Stitch for Basketry
First nations people use blanket stitch to make baskets; with pandunus in the north and in our part of the world traditionally with a very common plant: Lomandra. Once the stitch is mastered it can be adapted to use with a variety of materials for neckalce pendants to sturdy functional basket
This workshop commences with the foundational skills in Blanket Stitch and how to start a coiled disc using raffia.
Start your coil
Choose between using your raffia disc as a pendant with matching earrings, sister basket or small basket.
Have a go at developing the skill with lomandra. Caroline will have lomandra on hand will demonstrate how to prepare it for basketweaving.
The afternoon will include discussion of the traditional and contemporary craft of basketry and acknowledge the skills of first nations people who made baskets using similar methods and certainly would have known how to use lomandra for basketweaving.
I pay my respects to indigenous weaver Aunty Bronwyn Razem who passed on the knowledge of how to use the method to make sister baskets