Braided Straw Basket
with Bozena Hrycyna
Saturday, September 26 | 10 AM - 4 PM
974 Dalhousie Concession 9A
McDonald’s Corners, ON, K0G 1M0
$155 | Materials and tools included
Learn to make a "solomyanka"-- a straw basket, using plaited wheat straw sewn together with linen thread. We'll be working with heritage wheat grown locally, originally from England.
This is a beginner level workshop that will introduce you to working with straw, material preparation, braiding and sewing, and very universal and simple methods that can be applied to many spheres.
No prior weaving experience is required.
Time permitting, we can also try a few different techniques of straw plaiting.
Workshop is full
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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