Make Your Own

All dry willow rods are now sold out in 2025. Please contact us to discuss your 2026 requirements.

Make Your Own Products offer prepared willow materials to Strobe Willows customers for a faster start to making woven objects such as baskets and craft items.

Items currently include willow rods for weaving, and pre-shaped, trimmed  frames, hoops and handles in both willow and apple wood.

All our Make Your Own products are available in what is called ‘brown’ willow, which are willow rods that are dried with the bark intact. The 16 varieties of willow weavers grown by Strobe Willows all have their own colour variations and general thicknesses, lengths and weaving characteristics.

‘Brown’ willow needs re-hydrating before being usable in weaving. In the dried state you will purchase these rods, they are quite brittle. After soaking ( a process that takes approximately 1 day for every foot in length of the rod), the rods become very flexible, as they were when they were growing and harvested.