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Willow - Spring Prompt 4 - part 2
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Willow - Spring Prompt 4 - part 2

One of 20 modules of ‘Journaling Nature Folklore’

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Willow weavers today seem to be in abundance, and are using their skills to go way beyond making baskets and repairing baskets.

Willow shelters, boats and sculptures …

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors made shelters with woven willow rods, usually when there was not enough hazel around. To be weather proofed and more permanent, gaps in the weaving were filled…

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