A good week for basket weaving practice! First, I visited my mom and taught her how to do the spiral weave on a wood base. She used to be a college instructor like me, so together we talk about how to best teach the steps in future workshops.

Secondly, my cousin from British Columbia surprised us with a visit. He is a computer programmer, so I made him a basket of Ethernet wire. I use the cut-offs from my son’s IT business and modify traditional willow weaving techniques such as French randing. For the border is used a reed basket type that I learned from Kajjka Hátleová’s pleteme z pedigu 3.