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	Welsh Basket Makers Group - Background, membership information and details of courses held at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
	The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers - Established in 1569 to control basketmaking in London, now supports charity and the craft of basketmaking. History, diary and events.
	The Basketmakers Association - Promotes the knowledge of basketry, chairseating and allied crafts; their making, study, collecting, teaching and use. Events, sales, membership and gallery.
	Scottish Basketmakers - Arts organisation promoting the understanding and appreciation of weaving with wood and willow in Scotland. Galleries, courses, local groups and news.
	Laura Ellen Bacon - Contemporary forms in willow for interiors and the landscape by a Derbyshire artist. Artist's statement, gallery of work and exhibitions.
	The Norfolk Basket Co - Adrian Charlton, a willow basketmaker offers courses and demonstrations as well as baskets made from his own willows. With photographs, prices and contact details.
	The Cane Store - Supplier of raw materials, tools and instruction books. Order form and information for vistors. Lincolnshire.
	Centre Cane Company - Importers of bamboo canes, tonkin poles, rattan materials and basketware. Essex.
	Sit Upon Seats - Woven seating specialists. History of cane and rush seating, DIY sales and online museum pages.
	Dane Coppice Crafts Group - Cheshire group holding workshops for willow basketry, willow sculpture and other related crafts.
	Windrush Willow - Growers of over 100 different species of willow. Finished products, materials, and information on varieties, living willow, dead willow, structures and uses.
	Lizzie Farey, Artist and Basketmaker - Artist in wood and weaver of willow. Sculpture, commissions, latest work, traditional work and advice on planting and coppicing. Scotland.
	Former Glory - Antique restoration services plus materials for DIY Includes brief descriptions of cane and rush seating methods with potted histories. Dorset.
	Jonathan Gordon - Willow basket maker using traditional tools, materials and methods. Suffolk.
	Guild of Straw Craftsmen - Straw craft includes marquetry, Swiss straw work, models made of straw, lip work, tied straw figures, finials and plaited straw hats as well as corn dolies. Resources, news and where to see straw work
	Robert H Towers Orkney Chairmaker - Traditional chairs with straw backs. Heritage, anatomy, photographs and ordering.
	Geordie and Anna's Orkney Chairs - Orkney chairs, suites and other wooden and straw items made to order. History, range and prices.
	The New Elizabethans - Barbara Fitch, straw work. Examples of Swiss straw lace and corn dollies. Courses, book, designs, techniques.
	British Baskets - Baskets and hampers in English grown willow made to order by Derek Noble of Ormskirk. Products and a history of basketmaking.
	Jenny Pierce Willow Basketmaker - English and Celtic style. Gallery of work and details of workshops in Herefordshire.
	Crafts Mid Wales - Living willow sculpture, traditional handwoven willow baskets, rush hats and mats. Gallery of work and workshops.
	Lois Walpole - Designer and maker of functional objects and art works using the techniques and the forms traditionally associated with baskets. Biography, exhibitions, ethics and gallery.
	The Waveney Rush Industry - Hand-woven rush products made to order. Origins, products, shop and a download video showing how rush weave products are made.
	Willowpool Designs - Steve Fuller and Simone Siegen. Craft items made from living and dried willow rods plus willow craft workshops.
	Roy Youdale Basketmaker - Offers a large selection of willow baskets. Includes gallery, background information and course details. Bristol.
	Clare Wilks - Artist who creates site-specific structures mainly in willow. Completed projects, design sketches and living pieces plus example prices and workshops.

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(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Basketry blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery Basketry Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Basketry The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basketry The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Basketry The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basketry Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp Basketry Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Basketry Value your words. Each one may be the last. -- Stanislaw J. Lec "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grac Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw Basketry What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon Basketry A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Basketry I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. -- Anne S You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Basketry A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional convi Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Basketry Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Basketry "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Basketry If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. 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