Hello, I’m Robin.
Windfall is where I share my basketry and craft.
Robin Brady (she/they) is a queer craftsperson, basket weaver and willow devotee.
They tend a cultivated willow patch at home and gather wild willow along nearby waterways. They live on Chinook & Cowlitz land near the old trade village of Cathlapotle in Ridgefield, Washington, under passing sandhill crane migration. They come to basketry via long time devotion to crafts and lifeways that keep them a student in the practice of direct and reciprocal relationship to the living world.
As a weaver of mixed European settler descent, they focus primarily on styles of willow basketry with roots in countries their ancestors once wove in, while being deeply in awe of the many brilliant weaving traditions belonging to cultures world-wide. Robin first learned basketry from Margaret Mathewson and other weavers in her watershed lineage, including Zac Fitipaldi, and is honored to continue the tradition of passing along this love of working with willow.
Robin’s love of both weaving and nature’s patterns carry through into her other creative work as well.
She naturally dyes and block prints textiles, weaves birch bark accessories, and photographs what inspires her with an old Nikon FM. Depending on the season, and her whims, she can also be found knitting, carving, tanning hides, foraging, dancing, and more.
