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pine needle basket
JW_Halverson:
No tape measure, no digital caliper, or triple-beam scale to make sure they were all the same density? Please tell me you spine tested each of the individual needles?
I've made a couple little teeny baskets, big enough to each house ONE of your arrowheads and I thought THOSe were a lot of hard work! Nice neat stitching, wow, a thing of function and beauty all rolled into one. Thanks for sharing.
vinemaplebows:
I think you are in florida is palmetto a option for weaving?
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
I made a split palmetto stem basket. It's work-able but not ideal. Doesnt bend overly well. the leaves of the palm are way to brittle when dry
richardzane:
here in NE Oklahoma the buckbrush plant looks like this picture...grows in spreading clumps.
Into winter it has red berries...birds seem to ignore them. they crush in your fingers feeling waxy.
always thought they'd make a good lubercant for a fire spindle, but never tried.
the runners or shoots, from 3ft to 6ft, run along the ground - lighter colored than the main gnarly bush growth in the winter.
their strong and they dry harder than honeysuckle. They do have little knots here and there,but i think it makes a basket look cool.
this is the time to harvest them. I cut em with a gut hook on my pocketknife close to the ground.
I used to roll them up to dry, till a Seneca/Cayuga basket weaver friend told me its better to bundle them straight
because its much easier to size them... yep...makes sense!
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
Nope, I've never seen that down here. I have lots of vines around, I am going to make a different one of vines later this week maybe. I have tons of gallberry shoots also, I bet it would be just as good as willow. I will give it a go too
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