Cynthia Porcher has completed a five-year study of the Gullah culture in South Carolina and Georgia at the request of the National Park Service. She concentrated on the five counties of Beaufort, Charleston and Georgetown […]
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“The Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga,” published in 2002. Search for this book through my Alibris affiliate form in the left-hand navigation. Master canoe builder and Ely, Minnesota icon, Joe Seliga, passed away
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Great last minute Christmas present for that basketmaker on your list! Search for the “Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry” by Sara H. Hill ($27.50, University of North Carolina Press) book through
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The latest issue of the Basketmakers’Association Newsletter for basketmakers and chairseaters #115, published and organized in England arrived in my mailbox on November 26. Pictures on the front cover are of a basketweaver at work,
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The Lake Country Basket Guild in Wisconsin now has a brand new website! Some of the pages are not quite ready and functioning yet, but most are. So take a look, join the guild and
New Website for Lake Country Basket Guild in Wisconsin! Read More »
Tired of the same old patterns when it comes to replacing seats on chairs with seat rails, dowels or rungs? Looking for different designs to use other than the traditional rush, basketweave, and herringbone to
New Design in Seat Weaving! Read More »
ADDITIONS TO BASKET GUILDS RESOURCE LINKS — The newest Basket Guild weblinks on WickerWoman.com are for two North Carolina groups, the Catawba Valley Basketmakers Association and the Natural Fibers Group. Check out these two new
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New Basketweaving Book: A Basketmaker’s Odyssey…Over, Under, Around & Through. Lyn Syler and Carolyn Kemp, the twosome who wrote The Basket Book and Handmade Baskets (with a combined sales of over 400,000 copies) have a
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