Making simple baskets is a really good thing to do on a quiet summers afternoon i went to a wood / scrub area near where i live and collected some pencil thick willow shoots and some willow bark as my materials to make this my first all willow basket. you start by taking 8 of the shoots and make a cross 4 on each then lash them together by looping the bark around the sticks and continuing until you have the size you want for the circumference. you then take a strip of the bark and twist both ends of the bark around each stick continuing to twist an ad more bark as needed until you have made a basket of any size you want. finish off by wrapping a strip of bark around to tighten up and trim off the sticks to look neat and that's it SIMPLE ........
As you can see by my piccys that its easy the hardest part is collecting the raw materials.
let me know if you have any success....
See you out there Paul
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