Growing wicker
Wicker has long been used in the folk tradition in Slovakia; it was the most widespread weaving material amongst all other natural types. Mainly green unpeeled wickers were used for folk basket-making production. Growing cultivated basket willow has not developed to such an extent in Slovakia that it is able to satisfy the demand for this material. Slovak basket makers obtain most of their cultivated wicker from Hungary and Moravia because domestic growers are still rare. One of them, Ján Zeman, an employee of the railway company, started to be interested in basket making a decade ago. As a self-learner, he studied basket making procedures and products intensively in literature, museums and with other basket makers. He gradually widened his interest to growing wicker. Currently, he has increased the area where he is already growing four varieties of cultivated willow.
Further articles of magazine Craft, Art, Design 02/2002:
- Irena Dorotjaková: Traditional production - modern design
- Viera Kleinová: Such an ordinary mug
- Xénia Lettrichová: Jozef and his knives
- Viera Kleinová: Wire objects by Šimon Mišurda
- Monika Škvarnová: Jewellery and wire objects by Blanka Šperková
- Oľga Danglová: Fulla and the world of folk art
- Ľubica Hustá: Robust Glass
- Growing wicker
- Zora Valentová: Jozef Hrmo's dream comes true
- Martin Mešša: Utensil holders
- Oľga Danglová: The pictorial world of wall hangings
- Zora Mintalová: The charm of a covered table
- Juraj Zajonc: From fibre to thread
