Basket making and beekeeping traditionally go hand in hand, as beekeepers before the 1850s housed their bees in handcrafted coiled bee skeps. Bring nostalgia to your home or garden by crafting your own decorative, traditional straw bee skep or more prim/western skep out of rope. You'll learn the traditional coiling basketry technique to create a skep, providing you the skills and instruction to make a full-sized skep tailored to your beekeeping needs. Your instructor also will discuss the traditions of bee skep history and lore as she learned from her travels throughout England.