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Mo Walrath

Woven Thresholds Willow Craft

Location: Port Townsend, Washington
Products: ‘soul boats’ or willow trays
Pricing:  $900 - $2,200
Shipping: contact for quote; pick-up available
Delivery: up to 250 miles from Port Townsend, WA; ship smaller woven baskets and cradles. See website for more info.
Custom builds available: yes
Materials: locally grown, tended, harvested, and cured willow; if wood is incorporated it comes from salvaged piles close to home or old fences etc.; roped handles are from old boat yard

Email: maureenbiome@gmail.com
​Phone: 708.655.3139
Website: www.woventhresholds.com
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Woven Thresholds is a project that brings individuals and communities into an intimate relationship with life, death, and beauty through the craft of willow basketry.
The vessels are woven with willow grown, tended, and harvested by hand from local lands as a response to the inert, extractive, and sterile over-culture. Re-imagining instead a collaborative, healing pathway for some of our choices around death and dying, creation, consumption, and decomposition. 
A small seed to plant with the long vision for any community that birth and death be returned to the hearts and hands of the people with the more immediate outcome of sharing the ancestral craft of weaving as a vessel for all life. 
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About Mo

​Mo is devoted to willow and tending the living tradition of basket weaving as a response to the ever changing needs of the living world. She is a soft and fierce student of birth, death, burial, and blood mysteries, reverent farmer, and threshold worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels she weaves. She learned to weave willow baskets in the Coast Range of Oregon — connecting her craft with the life of plants. There she learned about willow, their growing rhythms and patterns, the harvesting and curing of the plant for weaving, and teaching others to weave. Mo is a guest on S’Klallam land in rain shadowed Port Townsend, Washington where cormorants dive and eagles tell glacial memory sky stories with ancestral lines from the west coast of Ireland and Main River lands in Germany.

Mo is a member of the following organizations:
  • Northwest Basket Weavers Vi Phillips Member 
  • Conservation Burial Alliance Member 
  • Dying Matters Guild (Port Townsend) Member
  • Natural Funerary Artisans Collective 
The Funerary Artisans Collective is a group of funeral goods artists and craftspeople who choose to exhibit their work on this site. This website is intended for consumer education only. It is not intended to endorse. All exhibitors participate as independent free agents responsible for the quality and availability of their own products; their work is not juried. All purchases are between the individual artist and the consumer. The Collective is not responsible for transactions or communications between members and consumers.

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  • Home
  • Meet the Makers
    • Jewelry >
      • David and Nicola Finch
    • Quilts >
      • Zak Foster
      • Lee Webster
    • Shrouds >
      • Jeremy Burrill
      • Dina Stander
      • Christi Whiteley
    • Trays and Boards >
      • Jeremy Burrill
      • Mary Lauren Fraser
      • Mo Walrath
    • Urns >
      • Jeremy Burrill
      • Mary Lauren Fraser
      • George Lang
      • Jessica Palmer
    • Wooden Caskets >
      • Jeremy Burrill
      • Noah Burton
      • Paul Firnstein
      • John Jull
      • Mark Korban
      • Chuck Lakin
      • George Lang
      • Jessica Palmer
      • Jonas Zahn
    • Woven Caskets >
      • Mary Lauren Fraser
      • Sarah Lasswell
      • Mo Walrath
      • India West
  • The Collective
    • Purpose
    • Join Us
  • Contact