Zig Zag

Sylvia Friday

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Society & Culture
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Zig Zag is a podcast devoted to basketry culture and to the weavers who keep these traditions alive.

Mar 31

Polish Basketry Songs & Stories with Paulina Adamska, the Serfenta Association

A bonus interview with the wonderful Paulina Adamska of the Serfenta Association. Serfenta shares, promotes and manages knowledge about the intangible heritage of basketry in Poland. They offer workshops to bring craft experiences to everyone and they offer events about the meeting point between cultural anthropology, craft and the market. Paulina is a cultural anthropologist educator and Serfenta association leader. An experienced craft instructor and business woman, she gained her knowledge by studying at the university of arts and crafts in Poland. She has studied with outstanding masters and artists in Poland and abroad. Over the last seventeen years, Paulina has traveled extensively to research and record traditional basketry practices. In this episode, she walks us through her basketry research and the many stories and songs her and her team collected for their book Koche, which means basket in Polish. Listen in to her research journey along the Vistula river and dive deeper into the basketry culture of Poland. Serfenta Website: https://serfenta.pl/en/ Serfenta Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@serfenta/videos Serfenta Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Serfenta/Serfenta Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serfenta/?hl=en

1h 5m
Feb 24

Baskets 2 day, Baskets 4 life with Ane Lyngsgaard

Ane Lyngsgaard has been making baskets since 1993. She has taught basketry across Europe, North America and Africa. Using old techniques, she weaves in new and innovative ways, exhibiting her work and collaborating with her basketry collective, Baskets 4 life. In 2022, she founded the app, Baskets 2 day, an online basket school that shares a variety ofweaving techniques with the basketry community. Ane’s Website: https://pileriet.dk/ Ane’s facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anelyngsgaard Ane’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anelyngsgaard/?hl=en Baskets2day App: https://baskets.today/eng/index.html Support the musicians from this episode: https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii Full Show notes: https://www.woodlandweaver.com/zigzag9 🕸️

50 min
Feb 6

Traditional Basket Making in Rural Ireland with Tom Delaney

Tom Delaney is a traditional Irish basket weaver based in County Mayo and the founder of Ould Crafty. Formerly an archaeologist, Tom spent several years travelling and working abroad before returning home to Ireland, where he combined his love of heritage, craft, and storytelling into a business that’s both a passion and a pleasure. Today, he focuses on reviving traditional Irish basket-making techniques, working mainly with willow and natural materials rooted in rural life and history. ⁠https://www.ouldcrafty.com/⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ouldcrafty/⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaJa6talLP45ClGid9gk0gQ⁠ Support the musicians from this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii⁠⁠⁠ Full Episode Show Notes: ⁠⁠woodland weaver.com/zigzag8⁠

1h 2m
12/26/2025

Snakes & Spiders: Pack Baskets in History & Folklore

History & Folklore of pack baskets. In this episode, I share three folk tales where pack baskets play a central role. In these tales, there are pack baskets woven out of snakes, women who turn into spiders and one story from the perspective of a basket that has been in a family for three generations. The longer show notes are full of some incredible photos and videos! For the full show notes, click here. Many thanks to: The Armagh Rhymers for Zig Zag's Theme music. - Bandcamp The Halluci Nation- Electric Pow Wow - Bandcamp Maura O’Connell- Down by the Sally Gardens - Bandcamp Ram Thapa- Leykali He He Choyako Doko- https://sacmusicinternational.com

29 min
10/14/2025

Woven Thresholds with Mo Hohmann

Woven Thresholds is the vision of basket maker & interdisciplinary artist Mo Hohmann. Mo is devoted to willow and tending the living tradition of basket weaving. She is a mother, willow basket/casket maker, teacher, lifelong apprentice of birth, death, burial, and blood mysteries, reverent farmer, and threshold worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels she weaves. She learned to weave willow baskets in the Coast Range of Oregon and later in Ireland - connecting her craft with the life of plants and ancestors. There she learned about willow, their growing rhythms and patterns, the harvesting and curing of the plant for weaving, and teaching others to weave. Mo is a guest on S’Klallam land in rain shadowed Port Townsend, Washington where cormorants dive and eagles tell glacial memory sky stories with ancestral lines from the west coast of Ireland and Main River lands in Germany. woventhresholds.com https://www.instagram.com/woventhresholds/www.coyotewillowschoolhouse.com www.funeraryartisanscollective.org Support the musicians from this episode: ⁠⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii⁠ Full Episode Show Notes: woodland weaver.com/zigzag-6

1h 9m
09/12/2025

Historical Baskets with Steen Madsen

Steen Madsen discovered basket making through his early love of old handcrafts such as Stone Age flint knapping, rope making, hide tanning, and wood carving. In 1979, he was introduced to basket making while working with 7500-year-old Danish Stone Age eel traps made of willow. Soon he was growing his own willow and teaching workshops in basket making. For the last few decades, Steen has been a full time basket maker and basketry teacher. He keeps busy growing willow, teaching basket making around Europe and the US, educating basketry apprentices, and weaving baskets for museums, film and theatre productions, and collectors. Steen has also written two books about basket making: Flet med Pil, a beginner book in Danish and Baskets with Corners about square basket work, which has been translated to English. Steen's Website: https://www.steen-madsen.dk/ Steen's Intsagram: https://www.instagram.com/steenhedegaard/ Support the musicians from this episode: ⁠https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii Full Episode Show Notes: woodlandweaver.com/zigzag-5

1h 1m
08/25/2025

Walking the Waterways with Ayeen Telopa

Ayeen is a mixed media folk artist. Raised up by the generous tending of tide pools, her mothers hands, laughter, good food, and high desert storms. Her work is an expression of all the beauty she hopes to create and celebrate in this holy life! Her current muses and places of focus are willow basketry and land stewardship through process based watershed restoration. Ayeen’s website: https://ayeentelopa.com/ Ayeen's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waxwingandwillow/ Support the musicians from this episode: https://thearmaghrhymers.bandcamp.com/album/volume-ii Watershed crew links: https://swiftwaterdesign.com/ https://www.naturesengineers.com/

52 min
06/17/2025

The Fibers of Place with Delia Fian

Delia is a basket weaver and teacher, making her way towards a handmade life in the Unicoi mountains of Southern Appalachia. She directs School of the Greenwood, a nonprofit working to restore connection to the land through creative empowerment. She passionately explores the fibers of place - hunting the limits of all that is possible in weaving material culture for a rooted and regenerative future. 🕸️ Delia's website: https://www.deliafian.com/ Delia's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/delia_of_the_greenwood/?hl=en Support the musicians from this episode: https://allisonandtatiana.bandcamp.com/track/nancy-blevins Show notes: woodlandweaver.com/zigzag-3 🕸️

1h 2m
06/17/2025

Baskets from Poland with Paulina Adamska, the Serfenta Association

Paulina Adamska is a cultural anthropologist, educator and the Serfenta Association leader. Serfenta started from a deep research, they crossed thousands of kilometres to discover why basketry is awesome and how it is done - in Poland and all over the world. Serfenta creates a new ways for tradition in a modern world for the future of craft.🕸️ Serfenta Website: https://serfenta.pl/en/ Serfenta Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@serfenta/videos Serfenta Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Serfenta/Serfenta Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/serfenta/?hl=en Show Notes: woodlandweaver.com/zigzag-2 🕸️

1h 1m
01/27/2025

Wicked Willow

In this episode of Zig Zag you will hear a brief history of willow basketry in Europe. I will share how witches and willows are entwined through language, some history of wicker basketry in WW2, songs about willow and more! For the full show notes please click here Many thanks to: The Armagh Rhymers for the opening and closing music. The Serfenta Association for the song 'Lucimia, Lucimia'. Dave & Toni Arthur- 'Alison Gross' Steeleye Span- 'All Around my Hat' ⁠To support Zig Zag click here

27 min

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Zig Zag is a podcast devoted to basketry culture and to the weavers who keep these traditions alive.

Creator

Sylvia Friday
Years Active

2025 - 2026
Episodes

11
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Sylvia Friday
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