Cattail Basket
with Bozena Hrycyna
Materials and tools included
Learn to weave baskets with the most abundant material around Ontario! :)
You'll be introduced to the style of cattail weaving from Volyn- northwestern Ukraine, where this plant also grows in abundance.
Learn about harvesting, preparing and working with cattail, and plaiting and making cordage. You'll sew together a small basket, and fall in love with this soft, flexible and delightful material.
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Your Instructor
Bozena Hrycyna
Bozena Hrycyna is director of FOLK CAMP, an organisation connecting people with the folk arts, crafts, music, and land based traditions of Eastern Europe in the Canadian context. As co-founder of the Kosa Kolektiv, Bozena has collaborated with many talented and skilled artists, musicians, and community organisations in Ontario (and across Canada) to promote the richness of Ukrainian and Eastern European cultures, and to facilitate meaningful connections for people (cross-culturally and within their own lineage). Bozena is an amateur singer of traditional village songs, embroiderer, pysanka maker, weaver of threads and grasses, and textile craftsperson… actively learning and sharing these artforms from her Ukrainian/Ruthenian heritage. She has taken workshops and travelled extensively in pursuit of deeper understandings of these and other folkways, and apprenticed to the land, spending the last six years on a homestead near Wilno, Ontario. She currently divides her time between the Ottawa Valley, and southern Ontario.
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