Harvest Corn Dollies
with Bozena Hrycyna
Materials and tools included
Learn to make "corn dollies"-- straw love knots and harvest tokens from wheat and rye, traditionally crafted as gifts or favours for one's sweetheart at harvest time, and can serve as a talisman for the home.
You’ll learn a variety of straw plaiting techniques and leave with a selection of small pieces you can embellish as you like. These pieces make perfect holiday tree ornaments, too! You’ll work with heirloom wheat and rye and other locally grown materials prepared by Bozena.
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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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