Marie Drouet introduces creation with new braided materials thanks to sewn spiral basketry associated with woven basketry. She invites participants to revisit ancestral know-how to create their own sculpture.

At the end of the training, the trainee will have assimilated:

• Knowledge to recognize materials and techniques of basketry
• Traditional gestures of basketry
• Techniques for hybridizing plant and textile materials
• The use of basketry as a technique to create new materials and new forms.

Creations for new braided materials: plant-textile hybridization

During the training dedicated to basketry, participants will be trained by a basketry artist who revisits the ancestral know-how of this Craft. The training focuses on initiation to traditional basketry techniques, to the creation and production of a sculpture.

Guided by Marie Drouet, participants will explore hybrid basketry: sewn spiral basketry associated with braided basketry. They will acquire the essential gestures to create samples of volumes and textures. Each will then be able to create a sculpture mixing several techniques and materials.

Creations for new braided materials: plant-textile hybridization
During the training dedicated to basketry, participants will be trained by a basketry artist who revisits the ancestral know-how of this Craft. The training focuses on initiation to traditional basketry techniques, to the creation and production of a sculpture.
Guided by Marie Drouet, participants will explore a hybrid basketwork: sewn spiral basketwork combined with braided basketwork. They will acquire the essential gestures to create samples of volumes and textures. Each will then be able to create a sculpture mixing several techniques and materials.

Day 1
Introduction and presentation of Marie Drouet's work
Round table
Presentation of the history of traditional basketwork, materials
Introduction to creations and samples
Introduction to braided basketwork

Day 2
Introduction to sewn spiral basketwork
Hybrid experimentation with braided and sewn spiral basketwork

Days 3 and 4
Deepening of the techniques initiated
Setting up the sculpture project
Implementation of the sculpture creation by mixing techniques and materials
Personalized individual monitoring

Day 5
Finishing the creations
Presentation of the project and the approach
Collective restitution

Marie Drouet, a basket weaver, fuses the traditional art of plant weaving with a contemporary approach. From her workshop in the Val d'Oise, she collaborates with professionals in the luxury and decoration sectors and designers looking for heart-throb creations.

Marie uses traditional and rare techniques to design unique pieces. She is committed to an ecological approach by highlighting wicker, grown in France.

Marie's sensitive work is integrated into custom-made works, decors and lighting using other materials such as leather, rope, fabric and metal.

She does not hesitate to hybridize know-how through collaborations and her personal research. This work with materials gives birth to organic creations.

• Individual and collective work
• Workshop work
• Active participation and experimentation of participants
• Preparation and management of materials
• Organization of the workspace
• Steps and reflection on the creation of a series of samples
• Creation of a sculpture
• Teaching distribution: 70% practice, 30% theoretical contributions
• Collective restitution: experience report at the end of the training
• Sign-in per half-day
• Certificate of achievement issued by Campus MaNa
• Teaching resources and supports
• Workshops with professional equipment, classrooms, multipurpose room
• Supply of materials

• Collective and personalized monitoring of work, regular updates
• Assessment of acquired knowledge at the end of training
• Collective restitution
• Sign-in sheet per half-day
• Certificate of completion issued by Campus MaNa