ENDANGERED BASKETRY

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For Join, Assemble, Hold, The New Craftsmen's show for London Design Festival 2023,  we draw attention to and celebrate rare and endangered basketry techniques, offering insight into heritage skills unique to the British Isles, revived for the contemporary world. Many of the baskets included rely on British woods which have been driven to the edge of extinction in the UK. The display highlights the loss as cultural, as well as environmental, through the inclusion of these endangered materials, though the makers use only foraged, storm-felled or sustainable varieties.

Makers include:  Clare Revera, Rachel Frost, Michelle Mateo, Dominic Parrette, Hilary Burns, Nick McMillen, Joe Hogan, Lorna Singleton, Tim Johnson