Nova Scotia Basketry Guild -- Tuesday mornings
Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design -- 902-492-2522
Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design -- 902-270-7491

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There are people in the following areas who make baskets, teach basket making, have supplies, or other local information about baskets; New Glasgow, Cape Breton, Antigonish, Chezzetcook, Lunenburg, and Hubbards. Contact us for more information regarding these locations, or the local Halifax region.

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Farmer's Markets - Halifax, Dartmouth, Lunenburg and Hubbards
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia shop, Halifax
The Bogside Halifax
Carrefour Atlantic Emporium Halifax NS -- (902-423-2940)
Glooscap's Trading Post, Highway 102, Exit 13A Truro, NS -- 902-897-6953
Brook Village Basketry, Mabou Cape Breton 902-945-2385
Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design - The Guide to Craft and Art in NS
Studio Map, Studio Rally Production, Musquodobit NS
Halifax Art Map, a guide to artists studios and galleries within Halifax Region
Made In the Maritimes, The Hydrostone Halifax and Bedford Highway

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British willows and willow baskets -- Lunenburg Co. Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia willows -- Bridgewater, Nova Scotia  

Willow basketry tools -- Ross Farm Museum, New Ross Nova Scotia

Maritime Hobbies & Crafts  -- will order reed,  basketry kits, tools and books, as well as prewoven cane for chair replacements. The kits are great if you don't have storage space for bundles of reeds. 1521 Grafton Street, Halifax, 902-423-8870

Canadian Reed Suppliers (as of March 2017)
W. H. Baskets -- Port Rowan Ontario

Levairs Woodworking: We are located in Barry's Bay, Ontario and selling by mail order, a  very large variety of reed, round, flat and flat oval, seagrass, real rush, fiber rush, cane, handles, dyes etc.   I just recently took over for John Prentice of Caners Corner in Niagara Falls.  613-756-0057 kevin@levairswoodworking.ca

United States Reed Suppliers (as of March 2017)
Suzanne Moore's N. C. Basket Works
Baskets of Joy
D.E.L.S. --  Nantucket Baskets plus other materials
Xenor Trading -- Vermont. Their customer service is great and the prices good even with the exchange.

Withe Collection in the wild -- The traditional basket weavers of European origin in Nova Scotia use withe rod, Viburnum cassinoides, as their material. The basket styles are based on the European willow tradition. Unlike the European willow, which is grown in fields for making baskets, witherod is not grown commercially; it is gathered in the wild. If you cut a big bush, it will sprout up the next year into finer shoots suitable for weaving. Go along power lines and cut grown bushes to create a source of weavable withies for the following year. The book, "Withe Baskets, Traps and Brooms" by Joleen Gordon, which explains the use of witherod in Nova Scotia and how-to-weave several styles of baskets, may still be available through the Gift Shop at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.

Recaning of Chairs -- Our most FAQ is about replacing woven chair seats.  Our FAQ page is meant to be a help in determining what type of chair people are looking to have repaired, and a photo story of how to replace prewoven cane seats and backs.