In the media

Videos

Makers Broadcast Season 1 Episode 3

Lorna Singleton - Oak Swill Basket WeaverI am a craftswoman specialising in woven wooden products. I cut and prepare the wood by hand, managing and restoring...

Woodlanders Episode 11: Oak Swill Basketry

Podcasts

Building Sustainability Podcast by Jeffrey the Natural Builder. Episode 87, Spelk Basketry

Magazines

January 2021 Quercus magazine issue 10
July 2021 Selvedge Magazine (shown above)
March 2021 Period Living magazine
Sept 2019 Cumbria magazine. 4 page
March 2019 Lake District Life
Spring 2019 Town & Country magazine. 1 page feature
2019 Art Quarterly half page. ‘Living in the past’ feature
Oct 2018 Country Living 6 page feature
Nov 2017 Cumbria magazine ‘Craft with a heart of oak’ 5 page article
Nov 2018 Big Issue North ‘Old habits die hard’
May 2018 Woodworking crafts Oak Swill Baskets 4 page
Hole & Corner 15 The Natural Issue Mudag hazel basket featured
July 2016 My Warehouse Home – issue 4.. mywarehousehome.com/meet-the-designer-lorna-singleton
April 2015 Country Homes & Interiors ‘Meet our favourite designer maker’
Country Life Modern Rustic issue 08 Artisan Profile

Exhibitions

2021 Ruthin Craft Centre. Basketry: Rhythm, Renewal & Reinvention
2021 Tullie House Museum. Artful Ways
2019-2020 Bluecoat Display Centre. Jöl
2019 Ruthin Craft Centre. Basketry- Function & Ornament
2019 Lakeland Arts, Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry. Solo exhibition – Modern basketry
2018 Rheged, Cumbria. Exhibited alongside the Woman’s Hour Craft Prize exhibition
2018 Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset
2018-2019 Crafting Change. Touring exhibition from Chrysalis Arts
2016 Squeezebox Studios. Ambleside
2016 Moore Gallery pop-up. Caro Somerset, Bruton
2016 C-Art Cumbrian Open Studios. Sprint Mill
2016 Cumbria Life Home & Garden show. Rheged
2015 Baskets of the British Isles. Decorex, The New Craftsmen
2015 Basketry of Beatrix Potter. Cumbria BA group. Armitt Museum, Ambleside
2014 London Design Fair. Basketry demonstrations at The New Craftsmen
2014 C-Art Cumbrian Open Studios. 'Sprintmilling', Sprint Mill
2013 Coppice Crafts. Farfield Mill, Sedbergh. Curator of the Coppice Kitchen
2013 C-Art Cumbrian Open Studios. 'Natural Order’. Sprint Mill

Books

Dark Mountain 8 ‘Techne’ featured in “The Craft of Slow Time” Rob & Harriet Fraser
The Long View by Harriet & Rob Fraser

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Hi Lorna. Thanks so much for the basket weaving today. I'm amazed how much the kids enjoyed it, and my oldest sat still and engaged for the entire time! Thanks so much. I'll be looking out for a hazel basket course when you have one.