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Working with willow - Big Tree Society's Future Furniture Project takes root

5/3/2023

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Our Friday crew can turn their hand to anything!! Our willow beds have been cut for this years courses making baskets, sculptures, garden structures, bird feeders and Xmas wreaths. It's great to have a continuous and sustainable supply of our own material. We are going to restock with some other varieties from Wooplaw Woods to widen the range of colour and end use.
We have been coppicing the bigger, older willows at our tree nursery site. They will be stripped and used in other nailed furniture courses here at Big Tree in May.
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Willow Chairs in mid Winter !

25/3/2013

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Brrrrr ..... freezing cold day here at Buy Design Gallery for the Willow Chair course but we managed to get four creations out and almost into the cars at the end of the day. Once again some really great coppicing and making skills learnt by everyone including ourselves !! Stool making day next weekend (Easter weekend) still not above freezing but at least we haven't got the snow that some woodlands had through in the south west of Scotland. Got sent some images of a hill fire up in Knoydart last night - they got it under control and everyone safe - what's going on with this weather ???
A Big Tree thanks to Harestanes Countryside Visitor Centre for letting us cut some of their willow. Our beds up at Wooplaw Community Woods were under 2 ft of snow !
Keep an eye on course that the girls at Harestanes run Willow Weaving weekends April 4th / 5th and Garden Supports May 4th / 5th Booking advisable and phone 01835 830306
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Willow Chairs at Wooplaw

28/3/2012

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Oh my God ! Take a look at these fantastic constructions made by a brilliant team that came to our first Willow Chair day of the year. They coppiced out some big willow, selected and measured, designed and built six beautiful chairs for their homes and gardens. all managed to get them into the transport home. The guys at Big Tree always look forward to this course at Wooplaw because its so free flowing, free form and just really inspiring for us to watch the shapes, and structures taking shape. This is their work .......  AWESOME !!!!!!
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