I've always thought weaving your own willow baskets is pretty cool. Perhaps it's the appeal of being so self-sufficient. It's easy to have a romanticised view of a process if you know nothing about it ...

Heather Beasley Doyle is a journalist, writer, and editor based in Arlington. A hush settles over Mary Lauren Fraser’s workshop in Western Massachusetts on a November morning as five students ...

I absolutely love Suffolk and have been visiting my dear friend there for years. Frankly, any excuse and I'm heading up the A12, so it didn't take much to persuade me to try out a new craft in the ...

As craft classes for the likes of willow weaving and blacksmithing become more and more popular in communities right across Northern Ireland, we often wonder why anyone would want to take an hour out ...

It started with a sad request. A friend was dying of cancer and asked a group of weaver friends to make her a burial mat. The friends teamed up to fulfil the request, of course, and an idea lodged in ...

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Villagers make products woven from willow on June 10 in Zhucun village of Linshu county, Shandong province. [Photo by Liang ...