Lin Lovekin - Basketmaker
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Basketmaking Courses 2025

Courses coming up this Spring & Summer

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Hedgerow Baskets
Monday & Tuesday 17th & 18th March 10am -4pm,
Balwest, nr Helston
£185 including all materials, tea and cake
Join me for a creative 2 day basketry workshop using colourful locally grown willow and gathered hedgerow materials such as dogwood, old man’s beard & bramble.
You will learn to weave a round base and make a beautiful and strong basket with a handle using traditional tools and techniques. Suitable for beginners and improvers
Contact me to book your place: [email protected]

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Willow Sciathog
Friday 4th April 10am-4pm,
Potager Gardens, Constantine
£95 including materials

The Sciathog is a traditional Irish frame basket originally used for sieving potatoes.
Today this beautiful basket would work well serving food as a platter or as a fruit bowl on your table. In this one day workshop, we will be making a small version of this basket, making hoops, a long centre scallom and placing ribs symmetrically.


Suitable for beginners & improvers

To book this course go to: www.potagergardens.org
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Wooden Handled Asymmetric Basket
Monday & Tuesday 14th & 15 th April 10-4pm,
Balwest, near Helston
£185 including all materials, tea and cake


We will be making these beautiful and distinctive baskets using locally grown colourful willow and a foraged wooden handle.
You will learn to weave a round base and stake up using traditional tools and techniques. You will learn waling and a variety of side weaves and will border down with the rather wonderful contemporary Stanislaw border incorporating a wooden handle.
You can bring your own chosen piece of wood if you would like.
Suitable for beginners and improvers.

Email me to book your place: [email protected]
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Leather Handled Little willow Basket
Friday 16th May 10-4pm
Potager Gardens, near Constantine
£100 including materials

Join me to make this little basket with gorgeous locally grown natural willow and a leather handle. It is a perfect introduction to willow basketmaking.
Learn traditional stake and strand techniques working from a round base including pairing, waling, randing, bordering down, and then give this little basket a contemporary twist with a veg tanned leather handle.
This beautiful basket would work well collecting berries or eggs or carrying tools or seeds in the garden.
Suitable for beginners and improvers.
To book:
https://www.potagergarden.org/product/leather-handled-little-willow-basket-with-lin-lovekin-friday-16th-may-




Hemp rope oval beach/picnic Basket

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th June 2025
Lunch, Tea and Cake and all materials included
10 til 5-5.30pm

£250
Join me for a special treat of a workshop in the Artist Studio above the stunning Prussia Cove. In a course designed for all abilities including beginners, we will work from a Catalan oval base and make a strong and beautiful basket , with hemp rope handles and natural colourful sides. We will have a super long lunch break that will include a walk down to the cove for a swim or sunbathe. A simple vegetarian lunch will be provided. The aim is to make a basket, learn new skills and to enjoy where we will be and feel refreshed at the end!

To book your place, please email me
[email protected]



Please message me through the contact page if you would like to be added to my course list

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Kettles on!
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Woodland baskets
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  • Home
  • About me
  • Basket Gallery
  • Willow Lampshades
  • Woven Lampshade Gallery
  • Unusual Commissions
  • Traditional Baskets
  • Baskets for sale
  • Courses
  • Contact
  • Links