WickerworkAlong the many creeks in the island’s humid regions, willow grows... and grows. Throughout the first months of the year the farmers harvest the willow rods, which are then peeled and bundled. To provide extra flexibility in the rods they are boiled in huge troughs of water. Then begins the time-consuming and skilled labour of transforming the willow rods into wonderful objects of furniture, baskets and animal figurines of astounding beauty. |