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As an ex-tool maker and mechanical designer, Brian
Jewett says, "I've always been fascinated by alternative uses, non-conventional
materials and adaptive reuse. When I discovered basketry it was immediately
obvious to me that this was an excellent pathway for these material explorations."
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Mary Lou Slaughter's Burden basket. Top is 13" x 20", sides are 12". |
Vest fashioned from cedar bark by Mary Lou |
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Chrys Lunsford's Birch Bark
Baskets
Pack Basket with leather lashing used for storing bobbins for spinning -> <-Wedding Ring Gather Basket with hand spun yarn (1/23/02) |
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Paula
Harrison's tribute to honor the memory of her little blind dog, "Charlie".
The black band symbolizes Charlie's blindness and the white zigzag design
is symbolic of his ability to find his way through the blackness with grace
and dignity.
This basket is being taught at the October, 2000 Michigan Convention.
Cedar and waxed linen woven pouch
necklace by Karen Mitchell of Minneapolis, MN.
David Harrison
lives in the village of Garras, on the Lizard peninsula, an area in the
county of Cornwall UK. He is one of only about 10 men who still have the
knowldge and skill to make these these lobster/crab/crayfish type fishing
baskets. He says they are no longer used for fishing but are sold in craft
shops as decorative ornaments for the garden and other places. (9/25/99)