Creations for new woven 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.

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

• Recognize the materials and techniques of basketry
• Be introduced to the traditional gestures of basketry
• Learn the techniques of hybridization of plant and textile materials
• Use basketry as a technique to create new materials and new shapes.

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
Morning
Introduction and presentation of Marie Drouet's work
Round table
Presentation of the history of traditional basketry, materials
Afternoon
Introduction to creations and samples
Introduction to basketry braiding

Day 2
Morning
Introduction to sewn spiral basketry
Afternoon
Hybrid experimentation with basketry braiding and sewn spiral

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

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

Previously an interior designer, Marie Drouet did not intend to pursue her current practice. But after a lot of doubts and uncertainty, this basket weaver made her passion her profession. She speaks of her art as an entrepreneur who has been able to retrain for this artistic profession with talent.

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 luxury, decoration and designers in search of 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 matter gives birth to organic creations.

• Classroom, multipurpose room, workshops with professional equipment
• Supply of materials
• Individual and collaborative work
• Workshop work
• Active participation and experimentation of participants are favored

• Collective and personalized monitoring of work, regular updates
• Self-assessment of technical skills
• Collective restitution
• Sign-in sheet per half-day
• Certificate of completion issued by Campus MaNa