Paper Baskets
With Annetta Kraayeveld
This program is part of Handwork 2026, presented by Craft in America
Interested in expanding your weaving repertoire and creating vibrant and functional pieces? The projects chosen for this three-day workshop build skills and familiarize students with weaving with paper.
Each day students will have several color choices for their projects. The instructor will discuss the painting and cutting process and will have a handout with this information for each student. Printed patterns are included in the materials fees.
Workshop materials include materials for the four baskets, an instruction booklet and two laminated weaving boards. Students will have color choices for each of the four baskets.
Three-Day Workshop
Day 1 – Friday, March 27, 2026: Make a Tea Basket and Business Card Basket
We will make two baskets, one perfect to hold tea bags and the second sized to display business cards. Both of these baskets are woven over a form (a mold) to add in shaping while students get to know the material. In addition to the baskets, students will learn to weave some simple embellishments.
Day 2 – Saturday, March 28 2026: Paper Twill Trays
On the second day, we will add to the skills learned on the first day and add twill weaving. Students will use a graph and row by row weaving instructions to create the twill patterns on two paper trays.
Day 3 – Sunday, March 29, 2026: Fancy Tails
Meet Fancy Tails. This is a perfect third day project. This basket reinforces the skills learned on the first two days of the workshop and adds a new technique, T-Twining, to the mix.
Advanced students – If you have been buzzing along and want a challenge: Paper Patches… taking day two of the workshop to the next level. Students should be comfortable weaving with paper, understand twill patterns and can read a graph.
- Skill level All
- Age appropriate 16+ (minors must have a parent on site)
- Materials $130
- Students should bring sharp paper scissors (small for detail work); toothless micro alligator clips (instructor will have micro clips available for purchase); small packing tool (instructor will have 3mm packing tools available for purchase); clear plastic quilting clips; #24 tapestry needle; note-taking materials; packed lunch, and a drink.
Instructor
Annetta KraayeveldIt’s hard for Annetta to remember a time when she was not making something, she is a maker.
In the early 1990’s, she discovered basket weaving after stumbling upon a book and begging for a lesson; she quickly began making baskets, experimenting, and teaching basketry. She has been teaching at fiber arts and basketry gatherings across North America since 2000.
Over the years, Annetta’s work has won several awards and been included in several national exhibits. She currently has work in several exhibits, including Art Evolved: Intertwined (Studio Art Quilt Associates and National Basketry Organization), both the 2024 and 2025 Small Expressions (Handweavers Guild of America) and International Fiber Arts XII (Sebastopol Center for the Arts and Surface Design Association).
Annetta served as the National Basketry Organization Board president in 2022 and 2023. She participated in the World Wicker and Weaving Festival in Poznan, Poland in 2023.
Baskets. What started as a hobby soon became her life’s work. As a teacher, she focuses on mastery, basketry techniques and stretching perceived limits. As a maker, her work is somewhere between traditional and contemporary. Annetta was born and raised on the prairies in Alberta, Canada. After living among the trees in Wisconsin for many years, she is happy to weave and live surrounded by mountains in Helena, Montana.
www.annettakraayeveld.com
www.prairiewoodbasketry.com
