Working with baskets - November workshop
Saturday 21st November 2020 The Chennai Sogetsu Study Group continued with our online monthly meetings. We used Google Meet as always, to get together at 11 am on the 21st, for an online demonstration by our sensei Divya, who chose to work with baskets - natural woven ones. 24 members tuned in including our new members Suneela, Susan, Sumi, Niloufer and Rupa, who were introduced by their respective teachers. The Study Group is delighted to have new additions and we all hope to meet in person soon! Sensei Divya connected from her home and brought us three lovely, elegant arrangements. In her trademark quiet, smiling and confident manner, sensei Divya explained about the materials and the baskets. For her first composition she used a deep basket and placed another container within to hold water and help keep the materials in place. Emphasizing and incorporating the basket weave into the arrangement, the materials were used low and along the rim, with the anthuriums nestled in the