Pine Needle Basket Weaving

Pine needle basketry, conceived by Native Americans in Pre-Columbian times, is now a viable part of our American cultural heritage. Employing ancient coiling techniques and long-leaf pine needles, this art form has remained virtually the same for thousands of years. Yet it has evolved into the 21st century, bringing with its connections to our past a contemporary need to preserve our natural resources and appreciate our planet's gifts to mankind. What better way to keep tuned to Mother Nature, than to gather fragrant pine needles from her forest floor and weave a pine needle basket of such natural beauty, purity, and resilience.

About the event: Here you will learn how to handcraft your own pine needle basket. The positives of this craft are numerous, first of course, you’ll learn a new craft and be able to work with your hands, second you’ll be using resources that are from the environments and can safely return to the environment. Come learn how to bind together pine needles in order to create a piece of compostable functional art!

Taught by Lauren White, Explauren Arts

About Lauren :

Growing up surrounded by gardeners and artists, Lauren White's work is inspired by her curiosity of how we can work closely with nature and exist in harmony with what's naturally occurring around us. Lauren best portrays her pull back to nature through her artistic ways, using nature to create useful yet beautiful pieces. She strives to not create waste or add toxic ingredients to the earth but rather keep her materials in the loop of the natural cycles in life.