Join master basket weaver Anna Liebmann for two fun and sociable days weaving foraged frame baskets and create a round or oval willow masterpiece. You can choose to add a handle to create a fabulous foraging basket, or go without to create a beautiful fruit basket for your home. This basketry technique is a vernacular style that was traditionally used to build Scottish fishing baskets, a great heritage skill that we are proud to continue.

Join master basket weaver Anna Liebmann for two fun and sociable days weaving foraged frame baskets and create a round or oval willow masterpiece. You can choose to add a handle to create a fabulous foraging basket, or go without to create a beautiful fruit basket for your home. This basketry technique is a vernacular style that was traditionally used to build Scottish fishing baskets, a great heritage skill that we are proud to continue.

Come and meet Anna Liebmann (weaver) and Michelle Lowe (potter) as part of Art Walk Porty, discover and purchase beautiful handcrafted items from both renowned makers. Demonstrations, exhibition, coffee and homebaking…

Come and meet Anna Liebmann (weaver) and Michelle Lowe (potter) as part of Art Walk Porty, discover and purchase beautiful handcrafted items from both renowned makers. Demonstrations, exhibition, coffee and homebaking…

Folk at Heart is an invitation to enter a world of discovery and creativity. The Scottish Gallery has curated an uplifting, theatrical and imaginative exhibition combining fine, popular and applied artists to sit alongside self-taught and anonymous folk artists, mixing contemporary and historical timelines. Folk at Heart embraces the artist, the amateur, naïve and unpretentious – each artist leads the narrative from social history, decorative and useful, to the subversive and grotesque. There is painting, printmaking, collage, ceramics, jewellery, basket weaving, quilting and embroidery alongside many curious and rare vintage finds. Folk at Heart explores the iconography of personal memory, pop-culture, myths and folk tales, practical design and the continuation of local traditions in all forms... Join in the spirit of Folk at Heart this September.

You can see artworks by Anna Liebmann at Folk at Heart on their artist’s page here.

Join master basket weaver Anna Liebmann for a fun and sociable basket weaving course and create a beautiful and useful Hen Basket. Over two consecutive Fridays we’ll cover all the skills needed, starting with selecting your willow hoops to create an armature, adding ribs and controlling the shape, grading the willow as you meditatively weave this traditional Scottish basket form with a fascinating back story.

Three day master class in the heritage craft techniques of basketmaking, making a traditional Kentish Kibsey. Used for harvesting plums, cherries, apples and other top fruits depending on size.

An exhibition showcasing the value of willow weaving and growing to our world; to sustainability, continuity of our heritage and contemporary artistic expression. Curated by Lois Walpole.

Sixteen willow basketmakers, artists and sculptors, all of whom are full-time UK professional makers, explore the idea of nourishment and what it means to the maker today.