This page displays pictures of baskets exchanged between
members of a list devoted to the sharing of information
about growing willow and gathering materials used in
basketry. Members of the list live in Canada, the United
States, Great Britain and Tasmania. For information on
subscribing to the list, please email me. Pictures will
continue to be added as they arrive.
Basket Swap 1999
From the eye of the storm in North
Carolina, |
From Diana Macomber, Alexandria,
VA, a wren house
of grapevine spokes, woven with brown and peeled willow.
Thatched roof is of loblolly pine needles and long needle
pine needles.
From Leslie Davidson in Port
Angeles, WA, a leather rimmed basket
of bulrush spokes, woven with cattail and embellished with
horsetail.
From Kathey Ervin in Sequim, WA, a
visor of Bitter Cherry bark
stitched with cedar roots and embellished with a braid of
cedar bark.
Also of Sequim, Sharle Osborne's
rattle of cedar over a muscle shell
woven with yellow cedar, NW sweetgrass, woodwardia,
dandelion stem and bitter cherry bark.