Votre fouet pascal
L’Europe centrale est composée d’une mosaïque de petits peuples qui ont préservé beaucoup de leurs traditions. Ainsi, les populations sont encore très attachées à leur folklore. En République tchèque et en Slovaquie, tout le monde connaît et fabrique le fouet de Pâques… Ces fameux fouets sont tressés avec des brins d’osier vert. En tchèque, ils s’appellent pomlázka, […]
Édito : Transition, transmission !
Nous écrivons ces lignes à la mi-janvier, à une date où nous pouvons encore vous adresser nos meilleurs vœux pour cette nouvelle année, qui débute comme un printemps… Certes, vous les recevrez en mars, mais, dit-on, l’intention compte d’abord. Vous avez été nombreux à nous souhaiter les vôtres, au point qu’il nous fut bien impossible […]
Cantal cheese basket
The LLC Spring devotes several pages to the endearing Marius Méral. In this video, we see him make a Cantal cheese basket in oak from start to finish. The same one that 50 years ago was used to pack Cantal cheeses. Discover the video now! Video in French This video tutorial is proposed […]
The Nowy Tomyśl basketry museum (Poland)
On the occasion of the 3rd International Hops and Wicker festival this summer, we visited the Nowy Tomyśl basketry museum for the second time. This beautiful, modern, wooden building, is situated to the east of the town in an immense verdant park. What impresses visitors the most as they arrive, are the monumental wicker structures which […]
A laundry basket
Click on the image to download the tutorial (format pdf) on how to make a laundry basket from Alder buckthorn. Dimensions: L=60 cm (24 inches); W = 40 cm (16 inches); D = 16 cm (6 inches). Technique: Frame basket. Level: Confirmed weaver, practiced in making the laths. Materials: A range of alder buckthorn shoots of all […]
Montclair Art Museum (USA)
Basket Mania: temporaire https://www.montclairartmuseum.org/exhibition/basket-mania-collecting-native-american-basketry-late-victorian-era Contact: Montclair Art Museum (MAM) 3 S Mountain Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA Web: https://www.montclairartmuseum.org Find this article in Le Lien Créatif, Spring 2016.
The National Basketry Organization
A link between us In the United States the field of basketry has evolved to include work that stretches the traditional concept of what a basket is. While many people continue to make baskets in both the Native American and immigrant traditions, others are using basketry techniques and materials that challenge the definition of a […]
François Desplanches
Grand prix In Nowy Tomyśl, it is through the international competition that a sense of deep belonging to a large family is able to express itself. From all around the world, in a huge and magnificent hall, they were all gathered there to confront each other and to compete symbolically… Symbolic competition only, as the […]
Editorial: Burning issues
Life is like a freeform basket weaving, composed of circles, of cycles, of harmonious mixings. The harmony appears global, but as soon as one takes the time to look at the details, it is chaos which reigns and dramas which unfold. The movements of human populations are one of those cycles which are often scribed […]
« On ne prête qu’aux ruches » (programme)
Bernard Bertrand was the guest of Ruth Stégassy on the programme « Terre à Terre », on France Culture, Saturday 20 February 2016. To hear a recording of this programme (in French), click on the link below: http://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/terre-terre/extractivisme-45-ne-prete-qu-aux-ruches To find out more about bees and beehives: Discover LLC n° 7 (French only) and the book Ruches de […]