Julia Florence Parker, Yosemite National Park’s “living legend” and oldest employee is labeled a “national treasure.” “Living Legend” of Yosemite National Park-Julia Parker
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Basketweaving Category
My good internet friends, Tim and Kim, owners of Former Glory, a seat weaving supply and restoration company located in the United Kingdom now have a brand new blog! It’s here on Blogger.com and can
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“Web and Flow” basketry exhibition. For those of you that did not know about the National Basketry Organization’s collaboration show with the Textile Center of Minnesota, on March 6 – April 18, 2009, here’s a
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I’m so excited to show you my first antler basket video in a series made through the wonderful software at Animoto.com. It was a very simple process to select the photos I wanted to use,
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I’ve been having a great time the last week or so, harvesting and processing oat and barley straw for weaving bee skeps (bee hives). Luckily I have gathered quite a bit for this season, as
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Here is Rhonda Amundson at The Wicker Woman shop in August taking a bee skep class. This one was made from rye straw. We had fun and didn’t she do a great job?
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A couple days ago, I was out gathering barley straw from a farmer’s field and managed to get quite a bit of it for future bee skep making classes. The farmer got quite a kick
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It’s raining again today and the wind has been kicking up rather strongly, but every so often some rays of sunshine stream down, making for a very beautiful tableau. Wonder if we’ll be fortunate enough
Quiet, rainy, basketweaving day! Read More »