Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Dream weaver

Basket maker Mollie McMillen is endlessly thrilled and fascinated by the thought that people have been weaving vessels from natural materials for thousands of years. “Basketry uses all these ancient skills and techniques and I love that connection with history and where we all came from,” she says. “It makes me feel very close to the earth.”

Her inspiration is the rural landscape around her Hampshire home, where she finds most of her materials. From

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