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Class canceled by Sybil on 4/24 via email. Registrant was notified. I am awaiting option response.~tt

Paper birch or white birch has a long history of use as a strong and useful material to create many types of containers. Join us to learn more about this amazing material and the secrets of using it.

While using traditional stitching techniques students will create this beautiful and functional knife sheath to carry a classic Swedish carving knife. An optional neck or belt lanyard can be added as a useful carry strap. 

Students should bring: 

Bring a bag lunch. We have a refrigerator and microwave located on the lower level.

Details:

• Please note for this class, cancellation requests received 14 days or less before the workshop start date will not be eligible for a refund or credit.
• There is a materials fee of $75 included in the price of class. Materials provided include Birch bark, cane lashing, Swedish carving knife, and braided leather lanyard.
• Tuition assistance is available. Click here to apply.
  
• Skill Level:  Universal.  All skill levels welcome.
• Ages 14+ Welcome.

Instructor Bio:
Karen Sherwood began her basket weaving journey creating vessels useful for wilderness survival and woven with materials gathered from nature. Over the last 25 years, her understanding of weaving and the preparation of traditional materials has become much more refined while her interest in creating “working” baskets remains strong.

Karen carries a passion for exploring historic basketry techniques and styles and brings this to her work by harvesting and preparing her own basketry materials. She shares her connections to the plants and their remarkable uses when teaching each project. With these connections, each project becomes a unique blend of past and present. “It is with this vision we hope to honor the plants and the traditions they have grown from to give insight to, not only the past but how it can illuminate our future”. Karen teaches ethnobotany programs with the Washington State Department of Ecology.

She leads basketry classes throughout the county and as well as other earth- centered programs through Earthwalk Northwest, a wilderness school she and her husband founded in 1996. More info at: www.earthwalknorthwest.com.