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pine needle basket
richardzane:
I'd say thats a pretty nice one for your first!
most 'firsts" get lost in a closet,(or given to distant relatives) that one oughta be in a place where its seen.
do you have buckbrush growing around your area? If you're looking for an indigenous material for coiling baskets.
contemporary honeysuckle Cherokee baskets used to be buck brush before asian honeysuckle began to wind its way everywhere.
i've had some nice results with it.
you have to soak it and scrape the bark (over a wedge shaped grooved board end in a vice)
soak it good before weaving, but this is definitely the time to gather buckbrush runners. makes a nice woven basket too.
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
thanks, no I dont think we have buck brush around here. I will look it up and see if I know it by a different name but it doesnt ring a bell
criveraville:
That's a nie looking basket.. Do you happen to have a video of the process?
Cipriano
Pat B:
I was gonna suggest honeysuckle and like Richardzane said you have to boil it and remove the bark. For other coil basket material sweet grass or bull rush works too I think.
Did you use a open ended cone to gather and size the bundles of the needles as you wove it?
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
nope, I just eye balled it :D I thought about using a gauge but then figured that was only one more step to discourage me from doing it. when it felt thin, I added a few
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