First nations people use blanket stitch to make baskets; with pandunus in the north and in our part of the world traditionally with a verfy common plant: Lomandra.
This workshop commences with the foundational skills in Blanket Stitch and how to start a coiled disc using raffia. All manner of baskets can be made with a variety of materials from a delicate pendant for a necklace to a sturdy functional basket.
Start your coil
Choose between using your raffia disc as a pendant with matching earrings, sister basket or small basket.
Have a go at developing the skill with lomandra. Caroline will have lomandra on hand will demonstrate how to prepare it for basketweaving.
The afternoon will include discussion of the traditional and contemporary craft of basketry and acknowledge the skills of first nations people who made baskets using similar methods and certainly would have known how to use lomandra for basketweaving.
I pay my respects to indigenous weaver Aunty Bronwyn Razem who passed on the knowledge of how to use the method to make sister baskets.
source - http://www.carolinehawkins.com.au/blanket-stitch-basketry.html