Remembering Lois Rainwater (1920-2008)
Bronwen Aker, granddaughter of this accomplished Californian basketmaker and teacher offers a touching remembrance.

CRAFT **USA** National Craft Triennial
November 15 – December 23, 2008. Juror: Gretchen Keyworth, Director, Fuller Craft Museum. Awards: $2500+ U.S. artists 18+; basketry, ceramics, fiber, glass, jewelry, metal, mixed media, paper, and wood. Deadline: August 15th , 2008. Entry Fee: $30 entry fee for up to 3 works. For Prospectus, download from website. Please direct inquiries to Jeffrey Mueller.
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Celebrations! An Exhibit of Traditional Nantucket Arts
May 23 - October 11, 2008. Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum presents an exhibit of Nantucket art forms. In addition to many antique and contemporary Nantucket Lightship baskets, you will see carvings and scrimshaw from antique ivory, paintings, and many other items celebrating special occasions and daily life.
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Feature Article About Polly Adams Sutton in HGA
Kevin V. Wallace is the author of an artist profile about Polly and her cedar bark basketry in the Handweaver's Guild of America publication, SHUTTLE SPINDLE & DYEPOT, Volume XXXIX No. 2 Issue 154 Spring 2008. Polly's work is also featured on the cover of 500 Baskets.
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Lisa Head
This central Pennsylvania basket artist who grew up in Kentucky uses natural materials such as black willow bark, broomsedge, white oak, hickory bark and rye straw to create coiled and plaited baskets. Her work includes plaited rye straw dough rising baskets, storage hampers and bee skeps in the Pennsylvania German tradition and plaited bark baskets from the Appalachian tradition.
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North Carolina Basketmaker s Convention - Baskets Naturally
“Baskets, Naturally!”. The 2009 NCBA Convention will be held in Raleigh NC, March 19 - 22, 2009.

Clear Lake Basketweavers Guild (USA-TX)
Clear Lake Basket Weavers Guild (CLBWG) exists to encourage and perpetuate the art and skills of basket weaving in Houston, Galveston and surrounding areas of Texas.
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Wendy G. Jensen
Traditional basketmaker from Great Barrington, MA. Produces high quality traditional and utilitarian baskets from rattan. Offers workshops and a Basketmaker's Bed and Breakfast suite in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts.
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Dona Anderson
Using round reed, wrapped with raffia or pattern paper this Washington state basket artist creates contemporary sculptural pieces by stitching each reed to the preceding one until the desired shape is completed.
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Arlene Skinner
Using the naturally cured wild beach rye grass from the region near her home on Kodiak Island, Alaska Arlene twines contemporary woven baskets and art pieces that have roots in the renowned Aleut basketry of the Aleutian Islands.
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Making A Folded Bark Basket
Ken Peek offers a free illustrated tutorial that will teach you how to make a basket from folded and stitched bark. Poplar, ash, pine or other conifer barks can be adapted to this basket form.
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Beyond the Basket
This exhibit hosted by del Mano Gallery in 2007 showcased the work of established and emerging fiber artists and basketmakers including Dona Anderson, Jan Buckman, Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Stephen Johnson, Gerri Johnson-McMillin, Aaron Kramer, Jennifer Falck Linssen, Marilyn Moore, Debora Muhl, Dennis Nahabetian, David Peters, Jill Powers, Michael F. Rohde, JoAnne Russo, Elizabeth Whyte Schulze, Jack Slentz, Polly Adams Sutton and Ema Tanigaki.
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Basketmaking in the Aran Islands
October 5-12, 2008. Spend a week in Inis Mór on the Aran Islands of Co. Galway, Ireland on a learning vacation. Participate in a workshop in traditional Irish willow basketmaking with Vincent Mac Cearán.
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Nakia Wigfall
Multigenerational Sweetgrass Basket-maker of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. She is the Executive Director of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina's Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Festival. Her work is profiled in this online video.
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Dona Look
Birch bark basketmaker from Wisconsin uses white birch bark to create sculptural plaited, paneled and stitched baskets that have a classical, yet contemporary feel. Dona recently participated in Craft in America (book) and is a featured artist in 500 Baskets.
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Jennifer Heller Zurich
Contemporary basketmaker from Berea, KY uses black willow bark collected near her Kentucky home to weave, plait and twine baskets that evoke tradition while appearing timeless. She exhibits in juried shows nationally and she offers workshops in the materials and techniques she employs.
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Rockler Ellipse/Circle Router Jig Now you can easily create perfect circles, ellipses and sweeping arcs! With your router and this handy, easy-to-use jig, you’ll be able to make solid wood lids and bases for your round and elliptical baskets. Visit Rockler.com to view the demonstration video. More Basketry Supplies and Tools

Basketmakers Face Stiff Competition from Knockoffs
Charleston's sweetgrass basketmakers are finding it difficult to compete with baskets made in China. Lowcountry sweetgrass basket "sewers" are concerned about cheap knockoffs from abroad. This article includes tips about some of the telltale characteristics of an import so that collectors can recognize the difference between the two.
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Basket-Weaving Is Threatened in South Carolina
This news story from AP about how rapid development has negatively impacted Gullah Sweetgrass Basketry includes a multimedia slide show and a series of still photos that feature African American basketmakers Nikia Wigfall, Alma Washington, Henrietta Snype and others from in and around Charleston, Mount Pleasant and along U.S. Route 17 in SC.
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Charles Weber
Coiled pine needle basketmaker from Ellis Grove, Illinois. His baskets are made with Long Leaf Pine Needles, Black Walnut Slices, Bass Boards and Nylon Threads.
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Porcupine Mountains Folk School - Call for Instructors
The School is run by the Friends of the Porkies in cooperation with the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Ontonagon, MI. Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park is located on the southern shore of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They sponsor workshops in tune with their natural materials, wilderness and primitive skills approach. An Artist-in-residence program is also available.
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Westchester Area Basketry Guild Call for Basketmaking Workshop Leaders
Contact their workshop coordinator if you are interested in submitting a teacher proposal for their periodic workshops and basketry programs.
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Lucreaty Clark - White Oak Basketmaker
Lucreaty Clark talks about making white oak baskets. Audio recordings, transcripts, photos and lesson plans are included in this presentation by the Florida Folklife digitization and education project.
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Personal Adornment: Accessories Exhibit
May 23-August 23, 2008. Florida Craftsmen Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida. Exhibit of work limited to fiber techniques including, but not limited to, weaving, braiding, beading, felting, tablet weaving, free-form lace, crochet, knotting or knitting held in conjunction with HGA's Convergence 2008 Tampa Bay. Entry deadline: International entries: January 10, 2008 - US entries: January 17, 2008. Prospectus and entry form.
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Small Expressions 2008
Dates & Venue to be announced. HGA's Convergence 2008 Tampa Bay Annual Exhibit of Small Scale Works. Small Expressions is an annual international, juried exhibit featuring high quality, contemporary small-scale works sponsored by the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. to showcase fiber art of a small scale not to exceed 15 inches (38 cm) in any direction. Entry deadline: International entries: January 11, 2008 - US entries: January 18, 2008. Prospectus and entry form.
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Mills College Art Museum
This Oakland, CA museum's collection of approximately 150 Native American baskets is particularly rich in works by California's native peoples. In particular, the collection of Pomo baskets exhibits a variety of size, function, weave and decoration. Many of the baskets are from the Yurok, Korok and Hupa tribes of northernmost California.
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Micro-Mesh Cushioned Abrasives Washable and reusable abrasives are great for sanding basket handles and rims. Unique cushioning design results in extended abrasive life, the best surface finish possible and fewer steps. Conforms to the shape while providing even pressure against the surface. These 2'' x 2'' Soft-Touch Micro-mesh pads are one of my favorite basketmaking tools. More Basketmaking Tools

How to Weave Hawaiian Coconut Palm Fronds This step by step guide to weaving with palm fronds was authored by Jim Widess. Projects include a round basket, a square basket, a traditional palm frond hat, a trio of hanging baskets, a bird, two fish, a grasshopper and a rose. Spiral binding allows the book to lay flat. 72 pages. Published in 2006. More Basketry Books

Artisan Center at Maple Creek
Moscow, OH. This location near Cincinnati, Ohio offers traditional artists with a permanent location to display, promote and demonstrate their crafts. Students can learn the techniques needed to create traditional handcrafted work such as basketry, brooms, pottery, blacksmithing and woodworking.
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Institute for American Indian Studies
This museum, education and research center in Washington, CT is dedicated to the study of the indigenous peoples throughout the western hemisphere, particularly those of the Eastern Woodlands. Their ethnographic collections and events include basketry. The Institute also houses both an education and research library, containing over 2,000 books and journals which is open to researchers by appointment.
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Katherine Lewis
Willow basketmaker located in the Skagit Valley of Washington State, USA. She has a small farm named Dunbar Gardens where she grows much of the willow used in her baskets. She offers finished baskets, willow basketry supplies including live cuttings for planting, willow basketry workshops and willow basket making demonstrations. Her site includes photos of the cultivation of numerous varieties of willow for basketweaving.
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Mille Lacs Indian Museum
This museum and trading post focusing on northern Minnesota's Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians. They offer history and cultural events at their location in Onamia, MN. Birch Bark, Black ash and Sweetgrass basketry workshops are frequently offered in their educational programs calendar.
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Southwestern Community College
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) unveiled November 13, 2006 that an Associate in Fine Arts program focusing on Native American art is to be offered in collaboration with Southwestern Community College. The program is to be offered at the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts (OICA) in Cherokee. The studio arts curriculum offerings will include both contemporary and traditional Cherokee arts such as basketry/weaving, pottery, beadwork, mask making, sculpture, woodcarving, and stone carving.
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Lilly Baker, Maidu Basketmaker dies at age 95
This basketmaker from a prominent Californian basketmaking family will be remembered for preserving the art of Maidu basket weaving. Contributions may be made to a memorial scholarship fund for young weavers through the California Indian Basketweavers Association, P.O. Box 1348, Woodland, CA 95776-1348.

Shaw and Tenney Maine Pack Baskets
Handmade in Maine, using hand pounded brown ash, ornamental weaves and hand cut leather harnesses, each pack basket is unique. They offer conventional pack baskets, covered baskets, and trout and boat creels. They can have custom made, very special baskets in a 1/8" weave.
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Pat and Butch Bramhall - Stonehouse Silversmiths
This basketmaking couple from Croghan, NY create miniature, small scale and up to life size Adirondack Pack baskets, fishing creels and other baskets woven of precious metals such as sterling silver and gold.
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Michael Kane
This on-island Nantucket Lightship basketmaker learned his craft from his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Reis, Sr. His work is known for its tight weave, lavish use of ivory carvings, scrimshaw, unique forms and impeccable craftsmanship.
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2008 AMB Convention
October 21 - 26, 2008. The annual Autumn convention of the Association of Michigan Basketmakers will be held at the McCamly Plaza Hotel Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Peggy Wiedemann
This basket artist from Huntington Beach, CA uses natural fibers and gourds to create coiled sculptural baskets. She personally gathers many of her materials, such as pine needles and palm fibers. To these natural materials, she adds metal, beads and “found” objects to form unique pieces. Using these traditional materials and the classic basketry technique of coiling in unorthodox ways, she creates pieces uniquely hers.
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David Hembrow (URL update)
This traditional English willow basketmaker from Cambridge, UK is part of a multi-generation family of basketmakers. A variety of traditional willow baskets are offered including bicycle, shopping, pet, flower, laundry baskets and a wheeled willow shopping basket made by David's father, Gordon Hembrow.
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Siletz basketmaker keeps the art alive
Siletz basketmaker Bud Lane discusses how he works to keep the basketry traditions of his ancestors alive in this article from Indian Country Today. He makes cradle baskets, ceremonial hats, cooking baskets and working baskets for carrying such things firewood, roots and clams using traditional hand gathered natural materials such as hazel sticks, spruce roots, maidenhair fern, bear grass and woodwardia fern.
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Museum Basketry Collection Being Digitized
A three member curatorial team from Columbia Basin Basketry Guild including Lynn Beard, Kaye Van Valkenburg and Jane Town spent three days going over some of the more than 1,500 baskets collected by the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History to help create a new kind of digital artifact library.
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Eastbridge Willows
This company, based in Surrey, England provides courses and supplies for willow basketry. Willow varieties available are suitable for basketry, craft and willow sculpture. Set in beautiful Hampshire countryside, on the banks of the River Hart, Eastbridge Willows is now an established centre for crafts and willow horticulture in the UK.
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Reverse Color Cherokee Double Woven Basket Pattern
Free illustrated instructions by Charlotte A. Coats will teach you how to weave a diagonally plaited double weave basket in the Cherokee tradition using commercially available natural and dyed Hamburg cane. Tips and a tutorial explaining how to dye cane using Dharma Dyes and a fixative that will help prevent bleeding are also available.
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Step by Step Instructions for Weaving a Cherokee Diagonal Twill Basket
Charlotte Coats offers a free pictorial tutorial that will help you learn how to weave a traditional Cherokee Diagonal Twill Single Weave Basket. Includes free instruction on how to finish the basket with a Choctaw style rim as taught by the late Claude Medford, Jr.
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Bases To Weave
Candace Katz and Debbie Hurd have joined together to bring hand crafted wooden basket bases and quality hardwood components for baskets to basketmakers everywhere. Basketry bases are available in single slotted and double slotted styles in a variety of shapes including round, oval, rectangular, square, with and without attached handles. Also available, drilled plywood basket bases, handles, patterns (including a monthly free pattern) and other basket weaving supplies. Custom sizes are available.
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Reversible Tapestry Crochet Basket
Carol Ventura offers this free pattern for a basket made using a tapestry crochet technique. Carol's books Tapestry Crochet and More Tapestry Crochet will help you learn this technique if you desire more instruction than what is offered in the project sheet.
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Ohio Valley Basketweavers Guild (USA-OH)
Membership organization open to all of those interested in basket weaving. All levels of weavers are invited to attend. Meetings are normally held on the third Thursday of each month.
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Basketmakers of the West Midlands - UK
A small self-help group of basketmakers and allied crafts with members from a number of locations in the West Midlands that would be happy to welcome anybody with similar interests to join the group.
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California Indian Baskets
Shop from a constantly changing selection of Californian antique baskets such as Hupa, Karok, Yurok and Pomo hats, mush bowls and storage baskets.
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Weaver's Words Is Back
A site of general basketry interest featuring weekly digests of messages from members previously maintained by the late David Collins. Bonnie Easterbrooks-Krist has taken up the task and will work to keep David's legacy alive.
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Felco F-11 Ergonomic Pruner
Willow basketmakers depend on high quality pruning shears with a ratcheting mechanism to cut even those larger withes. This vendor offers many Felco pruners. A leather Felco Belt Holster with Clip will complement them all.
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His and Her Crafts - Drilled Wooden Bases for Pine Needle Baskets
Pine Needle Basket Bottoms that are pre-drilled, sanded and ready for coiling for your Pine Needle Basket projects. Available in woods such as Arariba (Canary wood), Bubinga, Jatoba (Courbaril), Mahogany, Maple, Myrtlewood, Oak, Padauk, Purple Heart, Teak, Walnut, Wenge and Zebra wood.
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Pillars of Culture Honored
Basketmakers Ed Carriere, Bill James, his mother Fran James and the late Bruce Miller were among the twenty seven tribal elders who were honored at the Seattle Art Museum for their determination to keep Native American culture alive.
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Michelle Cain
Willow sculptor and basketmaker from Wales, UK. Watch as she creates environmental sculptures such as this 26 foot high wicker otter which stands at the Welsh Wildlife Centre at Cilgerran, near Cardigan. She also make baskets and teaches both adults and children.
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Beginner Muffin Basket by Linda Clifton
A pattern for a basic reed cross-spoked round basket with dyed accent colors and a seagrass rim filler one of several free beginner basketry patterns from The Country Seat.
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Pomona College Museum of Art
This museum is in Claremont, CA. Pomona College's superb collection of almost 5000 Native American artifacts is particularly rich in Californian and Southwestern basketry with over six hundred examples in their searchable photographic database.
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Beaded Crochet Jute Basket
A free crochet basket pattern from Donna Hulka made with 2-ply jute twine and decorative beads of your choice.
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Leandra Spangler
This basket artist from Columbia, MO creates contemporary vessels that are reed forms covered with highly textured handmade paper. She weaves the form as an armature for the application of highly textured handmade paper. A hand polished graphite emulsion creates a luminous protective surface. Her vessels are shown across the country at invitational and juried exhibitions. She teaches workshops at a variety of venues including her own studio in Missouri.
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Joli Greene
This Maine fiber artist is the founder and owner of Greeneleaf Studios. The studio in Freeport, ME offers a unique mix of workshops for adults in the arts and nature. Basketry, hand-made books, decorative papers, masks and spinning for all levels are among the pursuits followed here.
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Free Online Graph Paper Generator
Square, hex, calendar, tumbling blocks, dots, diamonds, music notation staff, lined paper, penmanship practice paper and more can all be generated into customized .pdf documents in your choice of grid size and colors with this online free graph and grid paper generator. Great for design exercises and plotting out twill weave patterns.
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TaleWeavers
Chair caning repair and wicker furniture restoration company in Erie, PA offers services including repairs to chair seat cane webbing, strand caning, paper fiber rush, twisted seagrass, wicker restoration and wicker refurbishing.
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Pine Needle Basket Bottoms
Drilled oval and round basket bottoms for pine needle and other coiled basket weaving that are hand cut from fine birch plywood in designs including cats, dogs, sea life, birds, etc.
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Suzanne Shafer-Wilson
Basket artist from Lostant, Illinois creates wire needle lace vessels in copper and precious metals.
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BasketBases.com
Jeff's Wood Shop located in Cedarburg, Wisconsin supplies stock and custom solid wood bases for baskets. You will find oval basketry bases, rectangular basket bases, semi-oval basket bases, round basket bases, square basket bases, baby cradle basket bases, winter sleigh bases, wood lids for baskets, basket base dividers, basket feet, double slotted basket bases, drilled basket bases and keyhole bases for baskets in a variety of wood types like oak, aspen, cherry and pine in unfinished and pre-finished.
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Jo Stealey
View the personal site of this exhibiting basket artist who is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Included you will find a portfolio, artist statement and curriculum vitae.
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Mary Merkel Hess
The Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project presents a profile of this fiber artist/basketmaker. The profile includes a biographical sketch, audio interview clips, an artist's statement and images of some of her work.
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Coiled Yarn Basket - Free Coiled Basket Pattern
Learn the skill of coiling a basket with these free online instructions. This tutorial for beginner basketmakers is provided by Pacon Creative Products and includes a black and white printable version.
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Baskets At Live Antiques and Collectibles Auctions
Auction houses around the world like Skinner, Garth's Auctions, Inc., James D. Julia, Inc., Pook & Pook, Inc., High Noon Western Americana, West Coast Estates Auctions, R. G. Munn, Cowan's Historical Americana, Desert West Auctions and many others are teaming up with online services to make it possible for basket collectors to make live bids from home if they can't be in attendance at the live onsite auctions that feature baskets.
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Alison Fitzgerald
Irish willow basketmaker, teacher and proprietor of Greenwood Baskets in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Her work has been featured in exhibitions throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Holdings at this museum include some 100 archaeological specimens and 44 ethnographic pieces making the collection of rare Chumash basketry and fiberwork among the best in the world. Research is being conducted on ethnology and ethnobotany topics. An extensive library is available to researchers.
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White River Apache Cultural Museum
TUS AND TATS'AA: Apache Basketry Through Time is an ongoing presentation of the role of baskets in the lives of the White Mountain Apache in Arizona.
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Tina Charlie Basket Sells at Auction for $336,250.00
A new world record price was set for a Native America basket sold at auction. An unidentified successful bidder paid $336,250, three times the Bonhams pre-sale estimate, for a 1929 Paiute polychrome basket of degikup form by Tina Charlie, offered from the collection of Mrs. Ella Cain. A second Tina Charlie basket sold for $248,250 in the successful Native American auction that totaled $2.8-million.
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Catalog of Baskets Available for Sale at Gatekeeper Museum
The Gatekeeper's and Marion Steinbach Indian Basket Museum Store of Tahoe City, CA offers a selection of vintage and contemporary baskets for sale from such renowned weavers as Dat-so-la-lee, Maggie Mayo James and Sarah Mayo.
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Natural Black Dye
A tutorial from Primitive Ways authored by Dino Labiste provides instructions to help you learn how to dye your basketry materials or other fiber a deep rich black color using water, tannins and iron.
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Dried Straight Sweetgrass Hanks and Live Sweetgrass Root-Plugs
Do you need dry unbraided straight sweetgrass for basketry? Have you been looking for sweetgrass sod-plugs for sale? Would you like to start your own sweetgrass plot? Brenda Gordon and her husband run Avalon Farm, a family-owned organic farm business located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. They grow all-natural fragrant sweetgrass (heirochloe odorata), sometimes called vanilla grass, It is perfect for basketweaving and other craft projects. They also offer braided sweetgrass, colored broomcorn, gourds and lavender.
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Antique Restoration Center
Round reed, flat reed, flat oval reed, half round reed, rattan spline, cane seat kits, cane webbing, seagrass, caning pegs, caning tools, cotton Shaker tape, rattan braid, star pattern cane webbing, fiber rush, birch pierced chair seat replacements, Danish Cord, binder cane, caning needles, Bruer chair backs, genuine twisted rush, wicker cabinet knobs and just about anything else you would need to repair a chair seat, restore furniture or weave a basket.
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Leelanau Historical Society Museum
Traditional Anishnabek Arts display in this Leland, Michigan museum features their signature collection of black ash baskets and quillwork on birch bark which are primarily the work of the Leelanau Peninsula's Odawa artists. In addition to the exhibited collection, there is a study collection that is available for close examination by researchers.
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By Native Hands: Woven Treasures from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
The long awaited reinstallation of the Catherine Marshall Gardiner Native American Basket Collection, one of the most significant collections in the east is reality. LRMA will publish a 300 page catalogue of the entire collection.
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Carriers of Culture
Michigan State University Museum and the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, in partnership with Native American basketmakers organizations, are in the planning stages of developing Carriers of Culture: Living Native Basket Traditions, a multi-faceted project that will include a major traveling exhibit and a special program at the 2006 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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Cherokee Basket Designs
Graphed versions of several designs for twill plaited single and double weave Cherokee baskets.
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Craft Coiling Core
Looking for the soft white paper firm yet flexible cord that you use as a core for coiled baskets? This fiber wrapped craft cord designed for coiled basket projects is available in 1/4", 1/2" and 3/4" sizes.
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DINE BITS'AA' BAHANE: The Story of Navajo Baskets
A traveling exhibit about the history, symbolism, manufacturing processes, and new directions in Navajo basketry. Made available for booking by the Anasazi Heritage Center.
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Dyed and Natural Porcupine Quills
JTV Feathers offer a wide selection of colors and natural porcupine quills and an assortment of feathers to use to embellish your baskets.
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Gone Country Graphics
Original country graphics on cd and affordable professional craft website design. Free graphics, free pagesets, country graphics, sig tags, custom graphics, banners, logos, linkware, country clip art and more are waiting inside! Free page sets include a coiled country bee skeps with a fall pumpkin or sunflower theme.

Horse Tails For Basketmaking And Crafts
Horse tails that have been cut, washed, combed and ready for your craft work. Used for raku pottery basketry, braiding, jewelry and tassel work.
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Natural and Dyed Porcupine Quills
The Crows Nest offers a colorful selection of dyed as well as natural porcupine quills to use in birch bark box making and basketry.
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