Pine Needle Coil Basketry & Cacao: Re-learn an Ancient Skill

The Great Remembering – An Ancestral Connection Event Series

Welcome to our hands-on workshop to learn one of the oldest coil basketry techniques known.

Let’s get creative together – using materials from the land

People are often surprised that their hands “remember” how to do it, even if they don’t have any direct experience with it in this lifetime.

Coil basketry was woven into most ancient cultures around the world and is one of the oldest known indigenous arts.

Here, in the Rocky Mountain West, pine needles are foraged, soaked, and woven into sacred spirals. In this class, we’ll cover the origins of pine needle basketry and the basics of pine needle foraging. You will learn about preparing the needles, creating the spiral, building the walls, and finishing the basket. This is an organic class taught in a casual setting.

Imagine being able to create something beautiful, meaningful, and practical from materials you can find in the forest. We were thrilled when the opportunity to host this workshop came to us, and jumped to make it happen. It aligns perfectly with journeyOn’s mission to connect ancestral traditions with the modern world.

Cacao will shared mindfully and with intention.

Meet your teacher:

Allie is a basket maker, sewist, and birth doula. The last few years her craft has focused on pine needle basketry, foraging needles in her home state of Montana and on her hikes around Colorado. She sells her pine needle earrings, baskets, and art at markets near her current home in the Front Range of Colorado and at allieolson.com.

We get 5 whole hours of learning with her!

Additional details:

• Workshop fee includes all materials.
• Suitable for ages 12 and up.
• Tea and nourishing snacks will be provided.
• Pine needles harvested from the Lion Point Land
• Depending on interest, this event could become a series so you can continue to hone this skill (like making lids, handles, and larger baskets).

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