Natural materials are the way!

Natural materials are the way!

IMPORTANT UPDATE String Harvest is listening to our customers and will be focusing on providing you with more beautiful hand-spun, hand dyed natural materials to create with supporting our various...
November 01, 2023 — Tegan Murdock
String Harvest has moved to New South Wales!

String Harvest has moved to New South Wales!

Ngayi, my name is Tegan Murdock and I was raised in the small country town of Coomealla (25kms north west of Mildura on the NSW and Victorian border of Australia)...
May 01, 2023 — Tegan Murdock
Photos // Exhibition opening: Longwater, Institute of Modern Art - September 2020

Photos // Exhibition opening: Longwater, Institute of Modern Art - September 2020

All images featured in this post are courtesy of the IMA, and copyright of the photographer, Marc Pricop 2020 String Harvest is proud to have supported artists featured in the...
September 25, 2022 — Cass Harris
coconut coir twine for basket making - string harvest

How to make a twined basket with coconut coir

Love the sight of all that coconut coir, but have no idea what you'd make with it? Here's an idea!

This is a cute and easy little basket I'm making with coconut coir. Trust me, making one of these is really more simple than it looks!

 

September 17, 2019 — Cass Harris
Understanding raffia.

Understanding raffia.

I love raffia. Within days of discovering the fibre, I was right into it. I use it a lot, and it's my preferred core for basket making. Also, as a retailer, a lot of raffia has passed between my hands this year. So I'm starting a series of posts on the unspoken things about raffia.

July 19, 2019 — Cassie Harris
Behind the scenes: sustainable packaging

Behind the scenes: sustainable packaging

I've tried much harder this year to run String Harvest with a lower environmental footprint and I wanted to share some what and why info about our packaging - a dry topic for sure, but these are the small factors which make our business impact...well, less overall. That's a good thing...
December 09, 2018 — Cass Harris
Coil basket weaving methods // Paperphine Paper Raffia Bowl

Coil basket weaving methods // Paperphine Paper Raffia Bowl

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August 14, 2017 — Cassie Harris
What we're making: raffia baskets with Habu silk paper

What we're making: raffia baskets with Habu silk paper

Some photos of an easy crocheted coil basket I made using raffia and Habu's fine linen and silk yarn.

I found a groove late 2014 making a couple of baskets with raffia and the very fine Habu silk wrap linen paper. I started, below, with water blue...

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August 14, 2016 — Cassie Harris
a few reasons why...

a few reasons why...

By the time we go live with the site, this post might be buried a bit back, visible only to those very keen types who like to read everything and enjoy a good ramble, which is a relief. Hey, you. Hi.

So this might be a bit of a winding and long rehearsal to the about us page circa 2015. The what, why, 

August 14, 2015 — Cassie Harris