Grape 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 Grape Basket has a 6” x 12” woven oak herringbone bottom, it’s approx. 6” deep excluding the solid oak handle and has either a rectangle or an oval top weaver's choice. It will be woven over a mold and 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.