Members only, please. To attend, you must RSVP. Send an email with the subject “October Zoom” to ColumbiaBasinBasketryGuild@gmail.com. Please put your full name and email address in the body of the message. We will email you a meeting invitation a few days before the event.

Cathryn Peters AKA The Wicker Woman 

https://www.WickerWoman.com

“Let’s weave up some magic together!” says The Wicker Woman, Cathryn Peters. Her love of weaving began in 1975 when her son was an infant and her mother in law encouraged  her to weave a paper rush seat.  The craft took ahold of Cathryn and she developed a part-time home-based weaving business.  From there her creativity has grown into a wide variety of beautiful and unique products. She not only creates chair seats and repairs wicker furniture; her antler basketry art and antler basket patterns are admired nationwide. 

Cathryn has a mission to share the nearly lost arts of chair caning and wicker repair as well as promoting the crafts of basketry, woodworking, and fiber arts. She was a two-term (2007-2011) President of first chair caning guild in the nation: The Seat Weavers’ Guild. Always ready to help any one – novice or professional - Cathryn continues to be a home-based business owner, blogger, mentor and weaving educator on WickerWoman.com. 

What is she working on these days? Hear it from her:

“As it is right now, I'm working on a double-blind caned back on a settee and have just finished putting in the regular cane seat which has 186 holes! And I've just finished up on three hand-twisted cattail rush Hitchock chairs for a client in Alabama. After the seats are all thoroughly dry, I will apply a couple coats of shellac on the top and bottom of each seat and then when that's dry, will put back on the wooden guards that go all around the seats to protect the rush.”