What Can I Make with Willow Wood

Baskets. Hand-woven baskets of willow make useful decor for your home. … Furniture. Bent willow branches make beautiful handcrafted furniture that is appropriate anywhere that wicker, rattan or other casual style furniture is necessary. … Cricket Bats. … Brooms. … Flutes.

Is willow wood good for anything?

Common Uses: Baskets, utility wood, crates, furniture, cricket bats, carvings, and other small specialty wood items. … Historically, it’s been the wood of choice for cricket bats. Willow is a lightweight hardwood with good shock resistance, but overall is weak for its weight.

What is willow timber used for?

This versatile plant can be put to many uses on a holding — as a hedging plant, shelterbelt and tree fodder and for basket and hurdle-making, biomass, worming and other medicinal uses.