Exploring Paper Weaving

This workshop explores creating baskets with watercolor paper, from painting to cutting to making. Participants will receive both group and one on one instruction and the opportunity to design your own basket. Each person will paint paper, make 2-4 small pieces in class and have materials left to continue creating at home.

Using the instructor’s unique method of painting watercolor paper with acrylics, participants will paint 2 large sheets of paper. While these sheets are curing, students will use materials provided by the instructor to weave a small basket designed to teach basic techniques (including plaiting, twining, and lashing). Then they are ready to create their own unique vessels or replicate some of the instructor’s baskets using both paper painted by the instructor and the paper they painted. Students will also learn to cut paper to various widths with the tools provided by the instructor.

Each student will receive materials to paint two 30” x 22” sheets of water color, one full sheet painted by the instructor (several color choices will be available) and materials to make a small basic basket.

Students should bring:

• A small packing tool, a small thin, flat screw driver works. (Instructor will have 3mm packing tools available for purchase.)
• Toothless micro clips (Instructor will have some available for purchase.)
• Quilting Clips (clear plastic kind)
• Paper scissors (smaller, for detail work)
• Tapestry Needles (#22 & #24)
• A straight edge ruler
• A flexible tape measure
• 2-3 pairs of non-latex gloves,
• paint clothes, sock or apron
• 2” paint brush and 1 or 2 paint sponges
• a notebook for notes and sketches.

Meet your instructor: Annetta Kraayeveld

It’s hard for Annetta to remember a time when she was not making something, she is a maker. In the early 1990’s, she discovered basket weaving after stumbling upon a book and begging a lesson; she quickly began making baskets, experimenting, and teaching basketry. She has been teaching at fiber arts and basketry gatherings across North America since 2000.

Over the years, Annetta’s work has won several awards and been included in several national exhibits. She currently has work in Art Evolved: Intertwined (Studio Art Quilt Associates and National Basketry Organization), Papermade (Fiber Art Now) and the 2023 Small Expressions (Handweavers Guild of America).

Annetta served as the National Basketry Organization Board president in 2022 & 2023. She participated in the World Wicker and Weaving Festival in Poznan, Poland in 2023.

Baskets. What started as a hobby soon became her life’s work. As a teacher, she focuses on mastery, basketry techniques and stretching perceived limits. As a maker, her work is somewhere between traditional and contemporary.

Annetta was born and raised on the prairies in Alberta, Canada.  After living among the trees in Wisconsin for many years, she is happy to weave and live surrounded by mountains in Helena, Montana. She can be found online at www.annettakraayeveld.com,  www.prairiewoodbasketry.com , and on instagram @annetta_kraayeveld.

Registration will open once a price is announced.