Hopewood Baskets – Zarzo Flower Basket

Hopewood Baskets – Zarzo Flower Basket

Working collaboratively from their home studio in Worcestershire, Sarah Loughlin and Marcus Wootton create a range of functional and contemporary baskets. The name Hopewood pays tribute to the natural materials they use within their work, and celebrates the hopeful experience that making gives them. Weaving both locally-grown and Somerset willow, they enjoy bringing nature into new homes and hands, enriching living spaces and enlivening everyday tasks.

Materials
All the materials they use come from nature. The baskets they create are made from basketry grade willow grown at our willow beds in Worcestershire, along with willow sourced from Somerset. Using different varieties of willow gives them a wonderful range of natural colours to choose from, as well as providing different structural qualities. Each year is a discovery and learning process where they find out what the new harvest is like to weave with. Willow teaches them much about time and patience! They incorporate a range of locally-sourced wood into their work which they use to create structural elements and handles.