WILD WEAVING
Making Cordage from the land
Join us for a fun little 3-hour workshop to learn how to make cordage from locally wild foraged plants!
Making cordage is a process of taking plant materials and twisting them together to make string or rope. Humans have been making cordage for over 60,000 years. It is indigenous to all cultures on this planet, and is a beautiful way to connect with the land, your hands and our ancestors.
In order for each person to get hands on support and guidance, this workshop is only open to 10 folks so be sure to register ahead of time to secure your spot!
If this sounds like fun, please sign up below. We'd love to have you.
WORKSHOP DETAILS:
This workshop will be held outdoors on a beautiful piece of private land in North Boulder. Exact location will be sent once registration is complete.
We will talk about what cordage is, what plant materials can be made into cordage, how to prepare plant materials, how to harvest and store for later, and get hands on with making our own cordage from locally foraged plants. All materials provided for this workshop.
Light snacks and wildcrafted tea will be provided, but please bring something more substantial to eat for yourself if you like! And of course, water.
I'm offering this workshop on sliding scale from $50-$65. The sliding scale is intended to make this offering more accessible to all, and appropriately respond to the wide range of access to financial resources within our community. Please pay what you can reasonably afford knowing that your willingness to do so makes it possible for others to attend.
Your Guide:
Mandy Bishop is a ritual artist, medicine maker, nature-based guide and mentor. She’s a farmer, sister, daughter, teacher, storyteller and perpetual student of these ancient ways and ancestral lifeways. She’s a seeker, a lover of life, a dancer and a ceremonialist. Born on the front range of Colorado (lands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute peoples), she is deeply connected to the mountains and the wild places, and when not tending her garden might be found foraging food, wildcrafting medicines or making art.
She’s also the founder of Old Ways Wisdom—a place to bridge the gap of disconnect in these wild times by rekindling the old ways and fostering relationship with the land, our bodies, and the ancient wisdom in our bones through deep story work and ancestral skills. Mandy is in service to the remembrance of our wild selves; to a partnership between nature, creativity and soul; and to the wisdom carried in our bones waking us up to what is most important in our lives. And she loves more than anything to share in these old ways and wisdom with you!