Basketmakers, Basket Artists, Basketweavers and Fiber Artists from around the world
with Last names beginning with U, V, W.
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Gayna
Uransky
Fiber artist basketmaker from Garberville, CA. Uses organic gathered materials such as
driftwood and palm seed strands in her basketry. She is profiled here as a winner of the
Silverhawk Fiberarts exhibition.
Mary
Vanderhorst
Several members of the
Vanderhost family of Mt. Pleasant, SC make coiled Sweetgrass baskets in
the lowcountry tradition.
Lois Walpole
English basketmaker, author and teacher works in willow basketry and sculpture.
Charles Weber
Coiled pine needle basketmaker from Ellis Grove, Illinois. His baskets are made with Long Leaf Pine Needles, Black Walnut Slices, Bass Boards and Nylon Threads.
Helen
Frost Way
Contemporary fiber artist from Tucson, AZ whose work evokes the bygone cultures
of remote corners of the world in strikingly modern basketry forms.
Shannon Weber
Basketmaker from Cottage Grove, OR who creates color baskets, kelp baskets and
native baskets.
Lawrence
Wheeler
Nantucket Lightship basketmaker from Weston, MA. Makes traditional and
contemporary baskets of his own design and in the Jose Formoso Reyes style.
Karen Whipple
Using traditional California basket weaving techniques and design, along with
local plants such as willow, redbud and sedgeroot she makes coil baskets and
baby Pomo baskets. She is active in the Round Valley, CA area. Her tribal
affiliations are Wylacki and Nomalacki. She knows where to harvest plants, how
to cure, age and process them, skills taught to her by Elsie Allen.
Sylvia White
Working with industrial materials such as wire, sheet metal, pipe fittings,
cans, computer parts, paper and other materials that might otherwise end
up in a landfill this basket artist from Port Townsend, WA creates contemporary
baskets and other vessels. She offers workshops in the materials and techniques
she employs.
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze
This Worthington, MA artist creates contemporary basketry sculpture by coiling natural materials
such as pine needles, reed and raffia, into varied shapes. Once
each basket is completed she covers the surface with acrylic paint using dots, washes, stylized human figures and marks often inspired by petroglyphs (ancient markings pecked on stone).
She exhibits in juried shows nationally and her work is represented in prominent galleries such as
Jane Sauer
Gallery, Mobilia Gallery,
James Gallery and
Del Mano Gallery.
She teaches workshops and delivers lectures on basketry at locations
including Snow Farm,
Fuller Craft
Museum and
Fiber Arts Center.
Peggy Wiedemann
This basket artist from
Huntington Beach, CA uses natural fibers and gourds to create coiled sculptural
baskets. She personally gathers many of her materials, such as pine needles and
palm fibers. To these natural materials, she adds metal, beads and “found”
objects to form unique pieces. Using these traditional materials and the classic
basketry technique of coiling in unorthodox ways, she creates pieces uniquely
hers. Featured on the Carol
Duval show and the Misti Washington Gourd and Basketry Guild member
gallery.
Nakia Wigfall
Multigenerational Sweetgrass Basket-maker of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She
is the Executive Director of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina's
Sweetgrass
Cultural Arts Festival. Her work is profiled in this
online video.
Clare
Wilks
Willow basketmaker and sculptor living in London, England. Teaches workshops in
garden structures and living willow sculpture.
Judy K. Wilson
Designs and markets waxed linen and bead finished baskets and kits from
her home in Canton, GA. Offers classes in twined and coiled waxed linen
basketry.
This artist from Lostant, IL creates wire needle lace vessels in copper and
precious metals using a technique also referred to as knotless netting.
Char
Wiss
Contemporary basketmaker who in this instance uses telephone wire as the core of her
basket coil instead of a reed or other natural material.
Ronna and David Wuttke
Ronna is an accomplished gourd basketmaker, pyrographer and teacher from SC.
They travel the gourd show circuit teaching and vending.
Basketmakers Subject Menu
Individual basketmakers from around the world, listed alphabetically by last name.
Directories of artists by specialty. Email listing of basketweavers who would love contact
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