Historic Willow Coracle Film

Thank you to Poppy Hatinger for sharing this video based on footage from 1935. It shows two Irish craftsmen build a coracle from willow and an ox hide, then use the craft to set fishing nets in the River Boyne.

Stonehenge & Willow

A British engineer and his friends recently tested his theory that baskets woven of willow and alder saplings could have been used to roll the massive standing stones at Salisbury from where they were quarried in Wales.

 

You can read the story here. Thank you to willow weaver Jacki Bedworth for the heads up on this story.

Got Those Willow Blues?

At this time of year, the willow doesn't need much attention. It's a good time to visit the Willow Pattern Project for stories and links about Blue Willow patterned china. Do you have a Blue Willow family story?