A kit comes with everything but the tools and the finish: a hard-copy pattern, pre-cut reed, accents, and handles. Patterns are also sold on their own, delivered as PDFs. Either way, the basket is yours to make.
Two products, depending on where you’re starting from. Most baskets in the catalogue have both.
For weavers who want everything in one place. The pattern, the reed sized to it, the accents, the handles, packaged together and shipped. Add tools and a finish of your choice.
For weavers who already keep reed on hand. The pattern is delivered as a PDF, emailed to you after checkout, ready to print or read from the screen.
Each basket in the catalogue lists its kit and pattern options on its product page.
The kits are sized so a careful first-timer can finish without help, and an experienced weaver can move quickly. Nothing precious about it: just reed, a pattern, and a quiet evening.
A hard-copy pattern specific to your basket. Pre-cut reed, sized to the pattern. The accents and handles the design calls for. Everything except the tools and finishes, which you supply.
Soak the reed, set the base, build the walls, work the rim. The pattern walks each row at its own pace. Take an evening or take a weekend. The basket waits.
Trim the ends, attach the handles, and finish with your own stain or paint. Sign and date it underneath. Then put it where it belongs.
The full pattern for the basket you chose: step-by-step written instructions, with links to our online technique guides.
Pre-cut and sorted by length: uprights, weavers, rim pieces. Sized to the pattern, ready to soak.
Any colored or contrasting reed the pattern calls for, cut to length and packaged with the rest.
Wooden, wire, or reed-loop, whichever the basket uses. Hardware included where the design needs it.
Tools and finishes are not included. Bring your own, or see the Colors & Finishes guide for what we use on our own baskets.
The box is the same whoever opens it. What changes is what you bring to it.
No experience assumed. The pattern walks every row in writing, with links to our technique guides where a step needs more than a sentence. You supply a flat surface, scissors, warm water and a towel. Get stuck, send a photo, and we write back.
Weaving is repetitive in the way that settles a mind. Soak, set, wrap, repeat, for as long as you like. It asks for attention without concentration, and what you put down is a basket you will use.
Around twelve, with guidance, a child can work a kit through, with a capable adult weaving alongside rather than watching from the next room. Wet reed takes a firm hand, and there are clippers on the table.
Padraic had never woven before opening a Snack Basket kit, and left this review on Etsy afterward.
“I have never made a basket before. I am pretty crafty with other materials and wanted to try my hand at this to make a gift. The kits came carefully bundled with all of the materials needed. The brief written directions provide a nice overview, but the QR codes at each step provided all of the in-depth description and invaluable photographs you need to make something like this basket. I will definitely purchase another kit, and am looking forward to making more baskets.”
A small kit comes together in an evening. A larger or more intricate one is happier across a weekend. A good part of that is waiting rather than working: reed soaks for a few minutes before it will bend, and a stained basket dries before it is handled. Nothing in the box expires, so you can stop mid row and come back to it.
Two beginner baskets to learn the fundamentals on, then a step up. Woven in order, each one sets up the next.
1A flat base, stakes stood up, and a plain weave the whole way round. Everything after this is a variation on what you learn here.
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2The same foundations on a taller wall, where holding the sides straight instead of letting them bell out is the whole exercise.
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3The step up: a shaped wall that curves rather than rises, and a swing handle to set and lash.
From $39The twelve kits we sell most of, most-ordered first. The full lineup is on the shop grid.
Everything needed to weave at home.
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From $33Mothers and daughters. Sisters and sisters-in-law. Grandmothers and granddaughters. Friends across a kitchen table. The kits are sized for one pair of hands, but they’re a lot more interesting with two.
Meaningful afternoons, useful baskets.
We’re putting together short videos for the trickier rows, the kind you can pause, rewind, and watch again. Not ready yet, but coming.
In the meantime, the written instructions in every kit cover every step, with links to our online technique guides. If something doesn’t click, write to us.
Coming soon
A hard-copy pattern for your basket, plus all the reed, accents, and handles the design calls for. Tools and finishes you supply yourself.
A clean flat surface, a small pair of scissors or clippers, a shallow bowl of warm water for soaking the reed, and a towel. Some weavers also like a packing tool, though it is not required.
Finishes are up to you. Stain, paint, or leave it raw. See the palette we work from on Colors & Finishes.
Nearly. Most baskets in the catalogue have a kit and a pattern option. Check the kit & pattern section on the basket’s product page to confirm.
Yes. Patterns are also sold on their own as PDF downloads, delivered by email after checkout, for weavers who supply their own reed.
It depends on the basket and the weaver. A small kit might come together in an evening; a larger or more intricate one across a weekend. The pattern is yours to keep, so there’s no rush.
Write to us with a photo of where you are and we’ll write back with the next move. Every basket we sell, we’ve woven a few of ourselves.
Yes. Tick Gift boxing when you add a kit to your basket and we will box it for gifting before it ships. It is $8, and it is offered on every kit. Nothing in the parcel shows what was paid.