Small Shopping Tote
Workshop | Available
Learn the craft of basket weaving with Billy Owens, a second-generation basket maker. In this workshop you will make a large shopping basket out of hand split white oak from trees that the instructor personally selects, cuts, and prepares by hand, using the tools his father made and used. Billy will share all things concerning white oak basketry from how he selects his trees to how he prepares it all by hand.
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.