Sturdy and inexpensive, oak-splint baskets were used in almost every kitchen and barn on the old homesteads. Prized now by collectors, these plain, undecorated, utilitarian forms tended to fall by the ...

GOLD HILL — Today, class, we have a lesson in making baskets. We will not be making just any old basket, but fine ash wood baskets using traditional methods of preparing the wooden “splints.” Many ...

Frank Weese is one of Michigan's few Indian black ash splint basket makers. For him, the first step to making any basket is selecting the tree and sprinkling tobacco on the ground before he cuts it.

DULUTH - It was like a Norman Rockwell painting. Four people hoisted a large log onto their shoulders. Through the snow, they trudged about 100 feet from a ground-level workshop to a Congdon Park ...

Basket making has been a traditional craft of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation for generations. Their baskets are typically made using thin strips of... Nov 14, 2019 — Basket making has been a traditional ...

PLAINFIELD — Trees surround Jennifer Lee's rustic home, but harvesting their bark for the baskets populating her shelves isn't an on-demand activity. "There's a season to taking the bark off a tree," ...