Family Birch Bark Baskets
Sat, May 10
|Nordic Northwest
Come explore the treasured folkcraft of Nordic birch bark weaving, create your own birch bark basket, and learn about the amazing birch tree!
Time & Location
May 10, 2025, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Nordic Northwest, 8800 SW Oleson Rd, Portland, OR 97223, USA
About
Family Birch Bark Baskets
May 10, 2025
11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Nordia House
Cost Nordic Northwest Members: $25
General Admission: $30All Youths (12 & under): $15
Arts for All: $10
(Tickets are limited to two people per Oregon Trail card. Please be prepared to show Oregon Trail card at the door.)
Please note, all sales are final
Come explore the treasured folkcraft of Nordic birch bark weaving, create your own birch bark basket, and learn about the amazing birch tree!
Great for ages 6 and older.
Nordic cultures have woven with birch bark for thousands of years, along with many other cultures across the globe. Use of birch bark for basketry, building, tar, and oils goes back to prehistoric times, and birch bark objects have been found in Viking burial sites.
Birch bark is fantastically strong and flexible, and is naturally water repellant, antifungal, and repellant to insects! No wonder it’s been such a popular material for millennia to make everything from food containers, to canoes, to even shoes!
Do you know why the birch tree is so important in the video game Minecraft? Join us as we talk about this and other interesting facts about birch in Nordic culture, look at examples, and then weave our very own small basket!
All materials will be provided, along with step by step instruction. Students will leave with a completed birch bark basket, and a new appreciation for one of the world’s most amazing trees!
This is a multi-generational activity! An adult guardian is required for children under the age of 18. Adult guardians do not have to purchase a ticket if they only plan to assist their children in the craft. Adults who plan to make their own craft are required to purchase a ticket.