About

Hello & welcome to my website, my name is Vikki & I launched Snowdonia Baskets in 2019. I teach & sell my baskets in a beautiful part of South Snowdonia, in North Wales.

My basketry journey started after attending a City & Guilds level 2 course in Basketry. This fantastic 8 month course was taught by Clare Revera of Welsh Baskets. After studying the Level 2 I was hooked & decided to take my Basketry to the next level. I am currently attending the Level 3 City & Guilds in Basketry at Westhope College, which is also taught by Clare & guest tutors such as the incredible Eddie Glew of Blithfield Willow Crafts.

I am very much at the beginning of my Basketry career, something I have come to after many years working with my hands in other specialisms. I was drawn to Basketry after learning all about traditional woodland management, in the form of coppicing. I was looking for a coppiced craft I could delve more deeply into & Basketry seemed like a fantastic fit for me.

Prior to Basketry, I started my career working as a Gardener & Garden Designer in 2004. I kept retraining throughout my twenties in more specific areas of horticulture, such as Forest Gardening & Design, Ethnobotany & Permaculture Design. I had an ‘awakening’ realising there was so much more to plants & working with natures rhythms than I had previously realised while working as a gardener. Inspired, I spent a year working & living off grid working alongside Woodsman Bens Law as his apprentice in 2016/17. During this year in the woods I got my chainsaw licence & worked a large Sweet Chestnut coppice, Ben taught me about natural building, hurdle & fence making & round wood timber framing. It was here that I met my future husband Will Hannam & knew our life together needed to revolve around the cycles of the seasons.

A few years later, me & Will were in a position to buy a stunning woodland in Snowdonia. With some land of our own we were then both able to focus in on our own chosen vocations. My husband Will builds round wood timber framed Cabins using our own timber (www.woodlandersuk.com) & I have set to work creating an Ethnobotanists Forest Garden with an integrated willow coppice.

We support the land & the land supports us, the way it should be.