Hands on Workshops

Contact Name: Clive Lyttle

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63 Cloughey Road
Portaferry
Newtownards
County Down
BT22 1NH

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Basketmaking with Welig Heritage Crafts

Basketmaking with Welig Heritage Crafts

In-person course

County Down - Next course on 25th October 2021

Discover the magic of basket making On this workshop we will be making a form of traditional potato basket or sciathog. Commonly made throughout Ireland but there was a great centre of basketmaking in the North of Ireland in and around Gawley’s Gate, Aghagallon and Aghalee in the south east corner of County Antrim close to the shores of Lough Neagh where the potato baskets were made in great numbers. The small versions we will be making were used to ‘teem’ and serve potatoes while the large version was used...

Discover the magic of basket making On this workshop we will be making a form of traditional potato basket or sciathog. Commonly made throughout Ireland but there was a great...

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