Family Workshop: Birch Bark Baskets

Birch Bark Baskets: Discover the treasured folkcraft of Nordic birch bark weaving, create your own birch bark basket, and learn about the amazing birch tree! All supplies included.

Nordic cultures have woven with birch bark for thousands of years, along with many other cultures across the globe. Use of birch bark for basketry, building, tar, and oils goes back to prehistoric times, and birch bark objects have been found in Viking burial sites.
Birch bark is fantastically strong and flexible, and is naturally water repellant, antifungal, and repellant to insects! No wonder it’s been such a popular material for millennia to make everything from food containers, to canoes, to even shoes!