This week’s workshop at Herbie’s was very busy, as more people made willow plates and others started on the frames of their willow baskets, based on Great Yarmouth’s swill.

Janet hadn’t worked with willow before, yet she made this beautiful plate.

And Austin put his plate to immediate use…

Austin was a natural with the willow, and straightaway made a start on a swill basket…

He’ll do more weaving next week. Here’s a swill that James was working on, alongside one of Time & Tide museum’s original baskets…

…even at this early stage you can already see that the style of weave is similar. It’s great to be exploring the town’s heritage in such a hands-on way!