I am a basket maker and artist passionate about willow. I create willow sculptural work as well as more traditional baskets. living off grid on a mountain in Ireland.
Subscribed!!. ❤ Thank you Hanna!! Willow is a beautiful and versatile tree, I have a great love for them!! My daughter, Saoirse's Dad is from Clonmel, ~ so I had a little 'Synchronicity' moment and decided I had to subscribe for This channel!! Thank you very much for making and sharing your valuable videos!! Namasté 🙏 🕊️ 💞 🌟 Gratefully appreciated,😊❤ Andréa and Critters. ....XxX .
عاشت ايدك يا قمر بارك الله في هاتين اليدين باسم يسوع ❤اشكرك جدا على مشاركتك هذا المحتوي الرائع من الآن انا مشتركة في قناتك الرائعة❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ لدي سؤالا انني امتلك صفصاف اخضر اللون وهو يجف بسرعة فور انزاع الاوراق منه هل هناك طرق لمعالجة الصفصاف؟؟؟؟ كيف احصل علي ثنيه هكذا بسهولة؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟ هل وضعت لونا حتي يكون لونه بني هكذا؟؟؟؟؟؟ تحية لكم من مصر
It would be better if you put the camera on your chest so we can see much more clearly and not have your bloody arm blocking all the relevant weaving, and loose the volume on the music
Hi Hanna, so glad to hear that you are well and good. Thanks to you I will have a mass of pollarded willow growth for next spring for all sorts of projects that you have inspired. Thank you and very Best Wishes.
Thank you for a great tutorial ! Now all I have to do is find enough willows to work with. The music was a little much but I could tune it out by concentrating on what you were saying, reading lips and watching closely as you explained the weaving pattern.
Do you prefer to avoid cutting rods from the existing structure because it would create more branches? Could one add some rods with the intention to come back in a year and coppice them so it would put out additional branches to weave in and thicken the walls?
Also, this gives me ideas about growing a living fence to keep the cows and hens out of the yard. I'm excited to pitch the idea to my uncle, who is the one to help repair fences every time they break through.
I do not cut the existing rods for the first few years at least until the structure is well established as it depletes the willow. I only add rods to make the structure stronger, not to harvest from.
Thank you for all the wonderful videos and the update on these structures. I am in Northland, New Zealand (inland, quite a bit of rain, humid in summer, cool in winter) with clay soil and have successfully grown Salix purpurea ‘Glenmark’ using weedmat to reduce grass pressure. I'd like to weave fences as low windbreaks using this willow - it it quite a strong rod that seems reluctant to stay where I want it - will this willow be suitable for a fence? Should I soak it before planting and weaving? I notice that you have thick mulch against the base of the rods, will that be ok in my more humid climate? Thank you!
I know some children who would climb it, assuming it could hold them like a man-made structure. If a child ran ahead on the path while mum or dad was busy with the baby, these kids could be almost all the way up in a moment. It's not a good or bad thing, it's just the way some children are before parents have had the opportunity to teach them about it.
Thank you Hanna! This is fantastic! I love seeing the update on the Living willow structures, and the hard graft you two put in restoring the structure! I am in the midst of growing a living willow retaining wall/pollard at our site here in Canada (west coast), I have chosen to use Salix koriyanagi "Rubykins" for the wall, as it has proven itself a good grower, and good for our site. The plan is to train it at 1m/3' high with the occasional high pollard so often, until it reaches good strength to support a raised terrace bed on the slope above the structure with which we can grow shade loving perennial vegetables. So I can stack the functions of gaining basketry rods, food/medicine production, and slope retention/terracing. We thought though, that we might install a mini swale on the downward side of the wall to better retain the rains. All the best as always!
Thank you! This is exactly the kind of ADHD-friendly, fast paced, informative and straight forward with no off-track/off-topic instructions that I’ve been trying to find since I decided to teach myself basket weaving a year ago! I rarely give up on things like this, but this time I couldn’t figure out how to do it. And it didn’t help that I had two kittens that treated my failing attempts as Cat toys and playtime, resulting in further failure on my part. But after this I think I get how to do it now! And my kittens are now «grown-ups», Yay! Will watch your other videos to prevent future failure😂 I never read instructions or join courses😂
