2024 Dried Willow

We have dried willow in 1lb to 3lb bundles available from our farm stand. Our summer hours are 9-8pm Wednesday through Monday at 120 Heidi Place, Salt Spring Island.

For larger amounts, you can make an appointment to shop in the barn or you can place an order to be assembled for pick up or delivery.

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This year's crop is dry and ready to weave. We have close to 2000lbs of dried willow for 2024. All our willow is grown and stored organically and free of pesticides and preservatives.

2024 Dried Willow Varieties 

Alba Vitilina 

Alba Flame (sold out)

Fragilis Belgian Red 

Green Edna 

Purpurea 187 

Purpurea Bleu 

Purpurea Green Edna

Purpurea Koch Brown

Purpurea Oka

Purpurea Packing Twine 

Purpurea Streamco 

Purpurea Lambertiana 

Salix Acutifolia (limited quantities)

How do I order?

We're still working out the bugs to sell through this website. Currently you are unable to specify what length and variety or colour you would like. For now, please send us an email with the amount, length and variety you are looking for. Payment can then be made through this site or by e-transfer once we have confirmed your order.

This is our passion but we can only do it part time. We can be slow sometimes, but we will get back to you. 

How can I get my order?

Orders can be picked up for free on Salt Spring Island or at our East Vancouver music studios. The studio has parking and loading areas and it is open noon to midnight 7 days a week - making it easy to pick up your order. Find it at www.pandorasboxstudios.com 

Orders over 75lbs can be delivered free of charge to much of Metro Vancouver and Capital Regional District. Delivery is also available for Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands, contact us for rates.

Shipping through Canada Post is available for a $10 handling fee plus the cost of postage.

How much do I need anyway?

Dried willow is sold by weight, which makes practical sense from the farmer’s point of view. From the weaver’s point of view it can be hard to translate a project into pounds of willow needed to make it. This is tricky because the different varieties vary in thickness from each other, but also season to season depending on conditions. Basically, the best you can do is a ballpark guess of rods per pound.

Not sure how many rods you need to make something? We suggest finding detailed instructions which will give a materials list of what is required. Add in a suitable amount of extras to be sure you have enough, and to provide a good selection of rods.

Detailed instructions can be found for free online or from a library. You can also find professional weavers around the world who offer digital instructions, books or even online courses.

Here are the results of a count done on a variety with mid-sized thickness (Bleu) Thinner varieties will have more rods per pound, thicker varieties will have less. This will give you a rough idea of what to expect from 1 pound of dried willow.

         2 ft  will contain approximately 250 rods

         3 ft  will contain approximately 135 rods

         4 ft  will contain approximately 68 rods

         5ft   will contain approximately 50 rods

         6ft   will contain approximately 30 rods

         7ft   will contain approximately 23 rods

         8ft   will contain approximately 15 rods

 

Note: Rods are sorted by foot and noted as the longest of the bundle (ie. 3 foot bundles will have rods that are anywhere between 2 and 3 feet long)

We have 2ft to 8ft lengths in most varieties and up to 12ft in some.