NOTE: The hat pictured uses advanced techniques. We will be doing a simplified hat for beginners, but let this inspire you!
Join dear friend of Hedgerow Herb Co. Marisa Rutto for a weekend weaving with cattails in Corbett, OR* - 30 minutes east of our beloved storefront in the Columbia River Gorge. In this class you will make a cattail hat using wildcrafted cattail, harvested locally by Marisa.
You will learn and use basic techniques such as plaiting and twining. Sharp scissors, wire cutters, or pruners can be helpful tools to have but for the most part, you will mostly be using your hands! If you have a spray bottle to fill with water, this will help keep the material malleable and prevent it from drying out.
This is a beginner friendly class!
Marisa is offering two sessions of this weekend long workshop. Each session will teach the same techniques.
SESSION ONE: July 12 & July 13th, 10am - 5pm each day. click here to sign up for session one.
SESSION TWO: July 26 & 27, 10am-5pm each day. click here to sign up for session two.
Your ticket includes:
+ materials
+ hands on instruction
+ finished hat crafted by your hands
+ a space to reconnect to ancestral lifeways in community
Please bring:
+ water
+ lunch
+ a camping chair/something to sit on
+ sharp scissors, wire cutters, or hand pruners
In times when a quick click of a button can have any good delivered to your door, at a great cost to both workers and the earth body, learning slow crafts and ways of old empowering gift to oneself and an important lifeway to keep alive through practice.
Payment plans are available on an as-needed basis. The full amount of your ticket will need to be paid by the date of your session. Please contact the shop at info@hedgerowherbco.com.
Address will be sent out 72 hour before class, along with carpool arrangements. The location is 30 minutes east of Portland off of i84 Exit 22.
Your Facilitator
Marisa is a basket weaver, seamstress, hide tanner and a person of many skills. She has studied the craft of basket weaving under Margret Matthewson. Marisa is passionate about bringing old traditions new life as a way of divesting from the overculture. She has studied the ways of folk medicine and folk magic, bringing an animist worldview to her craft work. When she is not weaving, mending, or making, she may be singing in the woods she resides in off grid, harvesting plants, building relationships and experiencing the fullness of what it means to be alive.