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A Coiled Basket With Beautiful Yarn
It took me seven years to complete my first coiled basket, started in a class. I made a second for a gift, which has been given, so can now be shared. This one was completed over a period of just a couple of months. I like doing this on road trips – not actually while…
Beadwork has happened!
Completed a while ago, but not yet posted, is this shallow, wide-rimmed bowl for a challenge/competition for Whimbeads. I purchased the kit of beads sight unseen (but themed by season), and created beadwork that incorporated at least half of the kit beads. I did use just over half the beads, and only the kit beads…
Additional baskets from “Sharing Traditions” at Yosemite National Park
I limited my basket photographs in my last post to baskets made by the three main demonstrators at Yosemite in the last 80 years, Maggie Howard, Lucy Telles, and Julia Parker. There were other baskets at well, rooms of them. Enjoy! Carrie Bethel was Mono Lake Paiute, and these baskets were made in the 1930s…
“Sharing Traditions” exhibit at Yosemite National Park
“Sharing Traditions” tells the story of 80 years of basket making in Yosemite National Park. I was fortunate enough to see this exhibit in the summer of 2012, and took pictures to share. Yosemite National Park has an 80-year tradition of basket-weaving demonstrations, and this exhibit celebrates that legacy and the three primary basket-makers –…
Invisible basket
Not really, but it was “interesting” to photograph. I used brick for the base and the horizontal portions of the body, and herringbone for the vertical elements. Top view: