Basket Weaver

Location: 21

82 River Street, Sutton

Michelle Zikovitz has been weaving functional baskets for over 25 years and teaching for the past 20 years, throughout southern Ontario. Her early weaving years were spent at her 2 floor looms focusing on woven tapestries, rugs, placemats, and runners. A basketry workshop taught by a fellow guild member, a love of baskets and the ability to weave baskets almost anywhere all led to a new found passion of basket weaving. Reed is her personal material of choice for teaching, incorporating her own hand dyed reed whenever possible. Michelle enjoys experimenting with random dyed or “space dyed” skeins of reed, creating many unique colour combinations and resulting in truly one-of-a-kind baskets. Lately Michelle has been exploring weaving with paper creating 2- and 3-dimensional works. When not basket weaving or working, Michelle dabbles in photography, sewing, fibre arts and various painting mediums. She loves to explore and find local basket weavers, artists, shops, and galleries on her travels.