Learn to make artful baskets from foraged materials, with this comprehensive guide to identifying, harvesting, and weaving wild plants. Make a memento of your next nature walk, and gather materials to weave a basket! All kinds of plant parts can be used for basketmaking—including leaves, grasses, stems, vines, and bark. Author and basketmaker Katie Grove offers complete instructions for harvesting and preparing more than 50 plants for basketmaking, along with 14 different projects that teach the nine essential basketry techniques, including cordage, coiling, twining, wickerwork, and more. An…mehr
Learn to make artful baskets from foraged materials, with this comprehensive guide to identifying, harvesting, and weaving wild plants. Make a memento of your next nature walk, and gather materials to weave a basket! All kinds of plant parts can be used for basketmaking—including leaves, grasses, stems, vines, and bark. Author and basketmaker Katie Grove offers complete instructions for harvesting and preparing more than 50 plants for basketmaking, along with 14 different projects that teach the nine essential basketry techniques, including cordage, coiling, twining, wickerwork, and more. An illustrated harvest calendar explains when each plant is ready for harvesting, and photos of every step in the process, from harvesting to weaving, demonstrate the techniques.
Katie Grove is an artist and basketry educator, teaching in-person and online wild basketry classes from her studio in Stone Ridge, New York. A featured artist and member of the National Basketry Association, her art features woven sculptures, installations, and drawings using foraged plant materials.
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Introduction: What Are Wild Baskets? Part One: Gathering and Preparing Plants for Wild Baskets Chapter 1: Tools and Materials Chapter 2: Plant Identification Chapter 3: Leaves, Grasses, and Soft Stems Chapter 4: Vines Chapter 5: Woody Stems Chapter 6: Wild Fibers Chapter 7: Bark Part Two: Making Wild Baskets Chapter 8: Cordage and Multistrand Braiding Chapter 9: Coiled Basketry Coiled Bowl Chapter 10: Looped Basketry Looped Cordage Pouch Chapter 11: Twined Basketry Twined Treasure Basket Wild Fibers Twined Bag Chapter 12: Woven Basketry Woven Berry Basket Chapter 13: Diagonal-Plaited Basketry Diagonal-Plaited Cattail Basket Birch Bark Tool Sheath Chapter 14: Folded Bark Basketry Bark Necklace Pouch White Pine Bark Catch-All Chapter 15: Ribbed Basketry Two-Hoop Harvest Basket Tension Tray Chapter 16: Random-Weave Basketry Grapevine Market Basket Random-Weave Bowl Chapter 17: Wickerwork Basketry Wild Wickerwork Basket Resources and Bibliography Acknowledgments index Acknowledgments Index