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Tasmania coffin course 2025
We're excited to announce that Sopjia is running a willow coffin course in Tasmania, Australia! Using Tasmanian grown willow, you will be...
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Oct 3, 20241 min read
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Abundant funeral flowers
This family requested a double curve ended coffin (rather than our standard petal shape), and the sympathy flowers were provided by the...
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Jun 24, 20241 min read
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Sympathy flower course
Plastic and foam free flowers... naturally... I'm teaching on a 3 day sustainable sympathy flower course in June with Tallulah Rose...
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May 10, 20241 min read
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Willow urn
Today involves finer weaving that normal, I've been making a brown willow urn order. Using a double French randing side weaving and a...
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May 7, 20241 min read
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Dying Matters week Devon open day and Sheffield events!
As part of the national Dying Matters week organised by HospiceUK, we are taking part in a few events. In Devon, Sophia is opening her...
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May 6, 20241 min read
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A special review
"Woven Farewell Coffins provided us with a beautifully crafted willow coffin for my lovely mum" Thanks to this family for sharing with...
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May 4, 20241 min read
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Hello from a willow coffin weaver
Hello! For the new folks who haven't come across us before - welcome! Sophia here, I started Woven Farewell Coffins coming on 5 1/2 years...
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May 2, 20241 min read
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Willow urn workshop
A snapshot into my willow urn workshop teaching this weekend, what a brilliant group! It felt like we were a big team by the end. Steph...
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Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Adorning a coffin
I recently had the honour of making K's coffin, partly with his family. K's talents and passions revolved around interiors wooden...
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Apr 12, 20241 min read
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British willow coffins
Meet Abi, the Lincolnshire arm of Woven Farewell Coffins, who started out as a grave digger while working for a natural burial ground....
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Mar 18, 20241 min read
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Top Five Regrets from the Dying
Have you ever thought about what regrets people at the end of their life might feel? How that might help us live more in line with our...
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Feb 10, 20241 min read
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Willow coffin workshop
Come and join us for willow coffin weaving in the rolling hills of Devon, UK! A 5 day programme and a small class size, with a myself and...
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Feb 7, 20241 min read
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Can willow baskets be made by machine?
The answer is no! Every wicker work you see is made by hand - even mass produced products in China. It's cheaper to pay people pennies on...
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Feb 2, 20241 min read
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Willow coffin history!
These stunning pieces are reusable/ rental willow body carriers from many moons ago in Sutherland, UK. I assume the deceased would have...
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Jan 31, 20241 min read
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Learning to weave a willow coffin and... Changes to direct cremation?
Last week I had a lovely lass as my student in the workshop who I taught how to weave a willow coffin, while I wove alongside her. She...
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Jan 22, 20241 min read
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Did you know?
Did you know that we donate 5% of our profits to the Woodland Trust? We are one of the only coffin makers in the world to share our...
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Jan 20, 20241 min read
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Willow urn tutorial for Order of The Good Death auction!
I have an exclusive experience available at Order of the Good Death's Memento Mori Market, a virtual auction of unique experiences that...
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Nov 3, 20231 min read
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Autumn funeral flowers
What do you automatically think of when you think of sympathy flowers? Generally not this? Now that we're fully into autumn, there's a...
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Oct 10, 20231 min read
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Collaborative funerals
We recently had the honour of providing a coffin for Halimah Van der Matten, a very gorgeous, talented, and much loved soul. She was my...
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Aug 31, 20231 min read
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Home visit?
Something that can be so special before a funeral is to create space for folks to visit their loved one and to say goodbye in a more...
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Jan 27, 20231 min read
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