Weaving Connections offers private or group basketry workshops with a focus on creating a calm and supporting environment in which you learn to weave unique, functional, decorative or ceremonial vessels whilst using sustainably sourced natural fibres. Weaving Connections offers educational and therapeutic programs that develop practical skills, weaving techniques, traditional fibre identification, harvest, preparation and use; basketry and fibre art, and plant based organic dyes. Kim Tait is the founder of Weaving Connections and is a skilled and highly experienced basket weaver, fibre artist and educator; Doula, Counsellor and long term resident of Byron Shire. Kim brings almost twenty years of weaving and facilitating experience and expertise to her workshops and events, and shares her technical skills of coil and wrap techniques, rattan and vine basketry, twining, cordage, random weave, natural dyes and more with warmth and patience. The mediative effects of weaving are well known as too are the therapeutic gains made by creating time and opportunities to explore the possibilities of our natural world. Nicole Raward and Kerry Lord-Negas are multi-disciplinary artists who work closely with Kim on creative projects, workshop creation and their delivery with large groups, schools and events. The ancient skills and knowledge of styles and techniques whisper stories of cultural heritage as they pass from generation to generation. Our weaving workshops build a deeper awareness of ancient traditional practices, cultural diversity, sustainability and conservation practices and foster deep connections to ourselves, each other and the local natural environment.
