by Hannah Van Aelst | Aug 16, 2025 | Life as a basket maker, Uncategorized
I often get asked what I do in a day. My days vary considerably and change throughout the year. In January I spend my time harvesting the willow. We harvest everything by hand. February is spent grading the willow and tidying up the willow beds. Then I have a spring...
by Hannah Van Aelst | May 9, 2025 | Musings, Uncategorized
I have made another YouTube video. This one is a little different. I talk about what it means to me to make by hand, the importance of using our bodies and learning while...
by Hannah Van Aelst | May 12, 2022 | Life as a basket maker, Uncategorized
What do I do in winter? Working with willow is very season dependent. Winter starts with the harvest. After that the long process of grading willow, sorting by size, starts. This winter I also planted some longer stemmed willow for pollarding, and I got the...
by Hannah Van Aelst | May 12, 2022 | Uncategorized, Willow
I often get asked about why we leave some of our willow on higher stems (pollarding). In this video I dive a little deeper into that question....
by Hannah Van Aelst | May 12, 2022 | Life as a basket maker, Uncategorized
Moving into my new studio has been such a joy! The space is beyond amazing and it is fun to see how the physical space has started to influence my work, in a good way… Watch the video...
by admin | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Some autumn snippets, thoughts and musings on making, slowing down and letting the willow guide what I make. I also explain what the willow disease, mentioned in the previous video, is and how I will handle it from now...
