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Creative with Nature
Joe Gregory is a willow sculptor and basket maker based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
She has now been weaving for 15 years, turning her hobby/obsession into a very rewarding career.
Basketmakers Association
Basketmakers Association. Promotes the knowledge of basketry and allied crafts, their making, study, collecting, teaching and use. To set standards of teaching and quality of workmanship and to encourage original design.
Norah Kennedy Willow Worker
My name is Norah, I live in Stroud in Gloucestershire and have been making baskets for 30 years. My baskets are made from stripped and unstripped willow - mostly grown on the Somerset levels, but with some unusual colours from Herefordshire and Powys.
The appeal for me in working with willow lies in the combination of natural materials and traditional skills.