Kilgrimol Crafts: Coiled Straw Basket Making

Come and join local Living History enthusiast Heather as she brings to life crafts from the Northwest's Heritage. Demonstrating the slowly vanishing skills that went into producing our clothing using natural materials. Inspired by the Heritage Crafts Red List, we’re focusing on endangered crafts. We'll supply • All materials and tuition • Hot/cold drinks and tasty snacks This month Basketry can be a hard skill to master, especially if you have low mobility in your hands, however this session will provide an accessible introduction to basketry techniques for all. We’ll focus on the ancient craft of making a coiled straw basket. This is a lovely basket style for daily or decorative use or put to work in the garden as a skep(hive) for the bees. Coiled lipwork baskets were a traditional craft for the North West as we had plenty of grasses. This is a quick style that could give you a berry gathering, flower picking vessel for the forager who has just realised there is something to collect and they have left their bags at home. This session is in our upstairs workshop space. We have a lift! Otherwise it is fourteen steps turn a corner and two more steps. There is an accessible loo on the same floor. GETTING HERE • Tram & Train to Blackpool North Station • Bus: No 6 or 18 to Topping St., No 3, 3a, 5c, 6, 18 to Church St (Stanley Buildings), No 5, 5a, 5b, 6, 7a, 14 to Talbot Rd • Driving: The closest pay and display car parks are on East Topping St and Talbot Road multi storey. There is also parking at the nearby Sainsbury’s supermarket, please make sure that you check the terms before you use the car park. TOP TIP: If you need to park a car, then there is usually plenty of free on-street parking on Edward St and Topping St from 6pm. REFUNDS • If you can no longer attend, please request a refund using the link in your confirmation email. • Orders can be refunded up to 7 days before the event. • Refunds will be subject to the Eventbrite booking fee of 6.95% + £0.59 per ticket.