Large Shopping Basket
Workshop | Available
All baskets in Billy Owens’ workshops are made of hand split white oak from trees that the instructor personally selects, cuts and prepares by hand, using home made tools his father made and used. This second generation basket maker will share all things concerning white oak basketry from how he selects his trees to how he prepares it all by hand.
The Large Shopper has a 6” x 12” woven Oak herringbone bottom, it’s approx. 9” excluding the oak handle and has an oval top. It will be woven over a mold. Everyone should finish in class with a piece of Ozark tradition.
Billy Owens
Billy (Jenkins, MO) is a second-generation White Oak basket maker from the Ozark mountains of Southern Missouri. He travels the country teaching and sharing this tradition since 1999. Billy was recently honored at the Smithsonian "Folk Life Festival" in Washington, DC. He displays baskets at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis.