Coffin Weaving Workshop
Zimmi Forest is coming to Walawaani Way in Bodalla! We are so thrilled she has agreed to conduct workshops throughout the weekend of Sat 25th and Sun 26th October 2025 so we can all be involved in creating a hand-woven coffin together.
Zimmi has stepped up the sustainable coffin movement to another level - by removing invasive vines from Australian bushland and using them to weave coffins.
It couldn’t get much better - an Australian artist who is not only making incredibly beautiful coffins but also using the cat claw vine that is strangling bushland. A double-good!
I first heard about Zimmi when I read an article about her art installation in Manly and it was not long after this we made contact and were having a coffee together in Bodalla and planning one of her fabulous Coffin Weaving workshops at Walawaani Way!
The dates decided were over the weekend of Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October 2025. People can choose to come for a few hours or the whole weekend.
It’s not about making your own coffin … (although you’ll have some skills to try!) but more about coming together to weave, to chat, to seed conversation and become part of a shift in how we can do death better.
Booking links are below if you are keen.
https://events.humanitix.com/coffin-weaving-weekend-for-walawaaniway-in-bodalla
Also - Shroud Making Workshop with Michele Elliot on this weekend, Link below;
https://events.humanitix.com/shroud-making-at-walawaani-way
It’s going to be a great weekend of talks and conversation - Hope to see you there!
Fiona McCuaig - Founder of Walawaani Way
More event information:
Event description
Would you like to experience weaving a coffin? Do you want to weave your own coffin?
This 2 day coffin weaving event is an opportunity to experience and witness the weaving of a coffin. Participate and learn how to transform an invasive species into a resource, create something beautiful and be eco in your death.
The coffin weaving workshop is just one of the components of this mini festival.....looking into, talking and sharing ideas around Death, Dying, Grief and Care in the most environmentally sensitive ways.
This weekend is hosted by Walawaani Way Conservation Burial and is designed as a starting point to talk, understand and express various possibilities around how to die well and have a considered, eco transition.
Running alongside the workshops there will be a talking/education space: which is free for all to dip in and out of over the weekend.
The 2 workshops that require bookings include;
Shroud Making Workshop
Coffin Weaving from an invasive vine
The Shroud Making Workshop is on Saturday only....link below
https://events.humanitix.com/shroud-making-at-walawaani-way
The Coffin Weaving will be divided into 4 sessions over Saturday and Sunday. You can book for just one 3hr session of weaving or do 2 mornings, 2 afternoons, one whole day or the whole weekend.....chose according to your interest.
