Heather Cassie Collection is a set of three baskets by historian and maker Rachel Frost is made with the stems and roots of wild Scottish heather. These baskets are most notably documented on the Orkney Isles, where other weaving materials are limited.
Rachel's natural focus is on historical basket designs within Britain. Drawn to wild, plant materials and those traditional baskets made from the more obscure weaving materials, she enjoys the unpredictability of non-cultivated materials and the challenges they can present. Collecting and working with the plants that grow in the surrounding Scottish countryside where she lives, lends her basketry a sense of place, that would have been intrinsically present in the work of rural basket makers of centuries past, from whom she draws her inspiration.
Material: Wild Heather
Dimensions: Varying dimensions cm: 25 (dia), 35 (dia), 55 (dia); inches: 9.8 (dia), 13.7 (dia), 21.6 (dia)
Care Instructions: Dust with a feather duster
