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COLETTE DAVIES

​Basket maker / Gwneuthurwr Basgedi

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Colette is a basketmaker who lives and works in Monmouthshire, Wales. She weaves beautiful, traditional, and contemporary baskets, from English rush and other natural materials. She enjoys using a range of techniques including plaiting, weaving, coiling, and stitching.
Colette has a particular interest in using plant materials that she either grows herself or gathers in her local environment. She is inspired by the natural world around her and the details she finds in organic forms. Colette enjoys immersing herself in the changing seasonal rhythms, which is integral to the way she works when gathering and processing plants for her baskets. Exploring the play of colour, lines of stitching and the texture of plant fibres is fascinating to her, and her work often crosses over into what she describes as, textile baskets.
Over the past few years Colette has become more involved in rush basketry, spending time with other Basketmakers Association members in June, cutting rush from a river in Somerset.
Colette is a member of The Basketmakers Association, The Heritage Crafts Association and The Makers Guild Wales.
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Gwneuthurwr basgedi yw Colette sy'n byw ac yn gweithio yn Sir Fynwy, Cymru. Mae hi'n gwehyddu basgedi hardd, traddodiadol, a chyfoes, o frwyn Seisnig a deunyddiau naturiol eraill. Mae'n mwynhau defnyddio amrywiaeth o dechnegau gan gynnwys plethu, gwehyddu, torchi a phwytho. 
Mae gan Colette ddiddordeb arbennig mewn defnyddio planhigion y mae hi naill ai'n eu tyfu ei hun neu'n eu casglu yn ei hamgylchedd lleol. Mae'n cael ei hysbrydoli gan y byd naturiol o'i chwmpas a'r manylion y mae'n dod o hyd iddynt mewn ffurfiau organig. Mae Colette yn mwynhau ymgolli ei hun yn y rhythmau tymhorol cyfnewidiol, sy’n rhan annatod o’r ffordd y mae’n gweithio wrth gasglu a phrosesu gweithfeydd ar gyfer ei basgedi. Mae’n archwilio â lliw, llinellau pwytho a gwead ffibrau planhigion, ac mae ei gwaith yn aml yn croesi drosodd i'r hyn y mae'n ei ddisgrifio fel basgedi tecstilau. 
Dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf mae Colette wedi cymryd mwy o ddiddordeb mewn basgedi brwyn, gan dreulio amser gydag aelodau eraill o Gymdeithas y Gwneuthurwyr Basgedi ym mis Mehefin, gan dorri brwyn o afon yng Ngwlad yr Haf. 
Mae Colette yn aelod o Gymdeithas y Gwneuthurwyr Basgedi, y Gymdeithas Crefftau Treftadaeth ac Urdd Gwneuthurwyr Cymru.

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      • Unfolding Welsh Textiles
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    • About the Guild >
      • 40 years of the Makers Guild
      • Visit of HRH Duchess of Gloucester
    • Our Gallery >
      • Makers Guild Wales
      • D Shed
      • Resilient Heritage Project
      • Craft in the Bay at 20
      • Molly Curley a tribute
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      • Butetown Community Craft Project
      • Christmas Craft Pop up
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