willow trivet
These are willow trivets or cooling trays. Willow scalloms are tied on to a hoop frame and then two rows of fitching across. Simple form. Katherine puts these into the “much harder than it looks” category! She learned this “basket” from Jenny Crisp, an excellent basketmaker in England. Katherine wrote about this workshop at the Basketmakers Association spring school at York in 2006 and we posted the article on our website here. These cooling trays sell for $50 each.
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Interesting with the assymetric form – haven’ seen that before. They are beautiful work of art.
Thanks Lene. Not only beautiful but useful. Katherine says that in France they make them out of white willow and scallom on both sides.