Looped bag made of invasive grass in Cornwall

Forage and Make Cordage (String) nr Brussels

Name: Forage and Make Cordage (String) nr Brussels
Start: 2026-09-01
End: 2026-09-01
Location: Drongen, Belgium

Discover the range of plants for making cordage (string) and rope from. Learn a simple technique that can be applied to a range of wild and garden plants, and go away with something handmade to use for practical projects or for adornments.

Previous participants have made bracelets, necklaces, rope, small bags, cordage for tying garden projects and more.

Includes a foraging for plant fibres walk. Please bring your own lunch to enjoy together at the end of the walk.

Venue: Kijfmeers 7, 9031 Drongen, nr Brussels, Belgium

About your guide: Rachel Lambert is a highly respected foraging guide since 2007 and has progressed into foraging for fibres to create artisan objects – both beautiful and functional. She specialises in using local plants. She is based in the UK and her work is motivated by a love of nature, plants and food, as well as the understanding that the biggest threat to our ecological stability is our disconnect from nature. Rachel is an emerging artist, whose medium is heritage craft and plants.

Hosted by: Wild plat forager Lieve Galle

A group of adults sitting outdoors weaving plants with additional plants strewn across the floor aerial view of basket of 20 bundles of plant strings ranging through greens to browns Looped bag made of invasive grass in Cornwall A table of natural green and brown fibres woven together in circular shapes. All made from local plants. 3 plant strings held up against the backdrop of rural Portugal Group of women in Penryn weaving as they walk