Willow & Basketry Books from West Wales Willows

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Jon Warnes Living Willow Sculpture Step-by-step guide to domes, tunnels, arbours, fences and living furniture, with plenty of photographs and diagrams - a brilliant book! Paperback, 48 pages 101 colour photographs £7.95 (+ Postage & Packaging: £ 1.50 within UK, £ 2.50 within Europe, £ 4.41 worldwide)

£ 5.75 (+ p&p: £ 1.50 within UK, £ 1.93 within Europe, £ 3.00 worldwide)

Cultivation and Use of Basket Willow 2001 A Guide to Growing Basket Willow This is an updated version of an article written by Ken Stott, BSc, who was the Willow Officer at the Long Ashton Research Station from 1949 to 1989. The update was provided by Ben Braster, Rod Parfitt, Sheila Wynter & Roy Youdale. The contents includes suitable conditions for basket willow growing, species grown, methods of cultivation, harvesting and processing, as well as major pest and diseases and their control. It might be only 28 pages, but these are packed with useful information - literature essential for anybody who wants to grow willows commercially. A4 size Paperback, 28 pages 3 colour photographs

Susie Vaughan Handmade Baskets from Nature's Colourful Materials It's back! This is the second editon of this book, which had been out of print for probably two years. Do you want to find out if basketry is right for you? Then this is the book to guide you along those first steps. The materials can be bought or collected from hedgerows and the coloured diagrams making the instructions very easy to follow. It will give you information about suitable materials (willows, dogwood, honeysuckle, ivy, hop and similar), their harvesting and storing and explains in detail with the help of drawings and colour photographs how to make beautiful and truly individual baskets in natural bark colours. Paperback 80 pages, 112 colour photographs £ 9.99 (+ p&p: £ 2.50 within UK, £ 3.23 within Europe, £ 5.61 worldwide)

£ 2.70 (+ p&p: £ 1.00 within UK, £ 1.45 within Europe, £ 1.94 worldwide)

Andrew Basham How to Make Hurdles from Willow (Osier) following an East Anglian Pattern A little booklet which deals with only one subject - making a basic hurdle from scratch. It will talk you through tools needed, weaving techniques and - tips, giving clear black & white line drawings. If all you want to make is hurdles, than this booklet will do you nicely! Paperback 12 pages

Christopher Newsholme Willows The Genus Salix A republication of the "Willow Bible", first published in 1992. Descriptions of hundreds of willows of the world, ranging from A ("Salix acmophylla") to Y ("Salix yoshinoi"), with chapters on General Characteristics, Management & Cultivation, Ornamental Willows for Large Garden & Parks, Small Gardens, Rock & Sink Gardens. Recommendable for landscape gardeners, commercial willow growers and willow enthusiasts. Paperback 224 pages 65 colour photographs, 159 line drawings Was £ 17.99,  NOW  only £ 12.75 (as stock lasts) (+ p&p: £ 2.50 within UK, £ 4.53 within Europe, 7.81 worldwide)

Colour throughout Paperback 132 pages

Kari Lonning The Art of Basketry Would you like to learn how to make a double-walled vessel? Marvel at the delicate leaf "basket"? An absolutely amazing book which features contemporary basket work of over 20 master basket makers using material, as various as willow, cane, clothes pegs, bark, cardboard or telephone wire and an incredible breath of different "baskets". Yet it also gives very clear instructions how to make some of these "objects of desire". Our verdict: A brilliant book no matter if you want to make your own basket or simply look at the stunning designs. A great present for anybody with an interest in basketry! £ 12.99 (+ p&p: £ 2.50 within UK, £ 3.83 within Europe, £ 6.81 worldwide)

Cover picture: The inside of a large willow structure Mainly colour, some black & white photographs Hardback, in german, 128 pages  £ 18.90 (+ p&p: £ 3.99 within UK, £ 4.93 within Europe, £ 9.21 worldwide)

Marcel Kalberer / Micki Remann Das Weidenbaubuch Due to popular demand (whenever we showed our book to a group of people there was somebody there mentioning that they really would love to buy this book...) and due to the fact that there simply is not anything even remotely similar on the english market, we decided to enclose this book into our range. Marcel Kalberer is an architect who has found his niche in constructing large willow structures for communities, which are shown in this book, besides smaller projects for individuals. The results are simply astonishing and give a whole new perspective of "willow work". The text in this book really is of secondary importance.

Cover picture: Illuminated willow structure at night Back cover: Inspiring willow art

Marcel Kalberer / Micki Remann Gruene Kathedralen ("Green Cathedrales") This is the follow-up book, with more projects that have been built in different communities. This book contains further exiting willow project. It is a bit more technical then the first, containing also drawings of the different planes, illustrating the dimensions of the structures in more detail. Mainly colour, some black & white photographs Hardback, in german 128 pages £ 18.90 (+ p&p: £ 3.99 within UK, £ 4.93 within Europe, £ 9.21 worldwide) For more information, here is a link to more willow sculptures by Marcel Kalberer in english.

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