Jodie Goldring

Making a basket using RANDOM WEAVING

Participants learn how to create a basket using a more contemporary basketry technique. Random Weaving requires an expressive and creative way of working that appeals to many people. In this workshop participants can create a basket or let their imagination go wild to create a garden sculpture. This visually appealing style of basketry echoes forms in nature such as the bird nest and seedpod. Examples of materials that could be provided are the indigenous vine hardenbergia, or wisteria, cane and/or willow.

I first learned how to random weave in 2011, with guidance from tutor Lesley Hall. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience random weaving and creates beautiful randomly woven baskets using the stunning branches of eucalyptus caesia ‘Silver Princess’. The Basketmakers of Victoria organised the workshop which was held in the stable at Wattle Park in Melbourne.

Participants from the Random Weaving Workshop led by Jodie Goldring and Anne Newton in Ballan, August 2014. This workshop was held on behalf of Wombat Regional Arts Network and funded by the Moorabool Shire.

Participants and their work created at a Random Weaving Workshop held on Saturday November 15, 2015 at Creswick Neighbourhood Centre.

Participants and their work created at a Random Weaving Workshop held on Saturday October 29, 2016 at Creswick Neighbourhood Centre.

A randomly woven basket housing an orchid on the verandah of Carol’s home after she participated in the Random Weaving Workshop held on Saturday October 29, 2016 at Creswick Neighbourhood Centre.

Participants and their work created at a Random Weaving Workshop held on Saturday November 12, 2016 at Darley Neighbourhood House.

Seven ladies and their baskets that were created using the technique of random weaving during an all day workshop at the Creswick Neighbourhood Centre in November 2017.

Participants making and displaying their baskets made using wisteria, hardenbergia (happy wanderer) and Muehlenbeckia (mile a minute) at the Creswick Neighbourhood Centre in 2018.

Participants and their baskets at the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre in June 2019.

Baskets at rest at the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre in June 2019.

Participants making and displaying their baskets at the Friends of Royal Botanic Gardens in October 2019.

Jodie Goldring, randomly woven basket, 24cm wide x 26cm high x 30cm deep, golden willow and hardenbergia, 2015

Jodie Goldring, randomly woven basket, 42cm wide x 30cm high x 38cm deep, golden willow and hardenbergia, 2015

Jodie Goldring, randomly woven basket, 48cm wide x 26cm high x 40cm deep, grape, willow, wisteria, wonga vine, black coral pea and hardenbergia, 2019 

Keen participant from a workshop at the Surrey Hills Neighbourhood Centre in 2019 goes home and makes a second basket and sends me a picture with…..

& without mandarines!!