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Projects included: cattail baskets, yarn baskets, wool bags, wool headbands, pine needle baskets, beargrass bracelets, cedar baskets, cedar jewelry and a soap root brush. Sitting together weaving ...
He watched her gather the perfect limbs and roots from nearby cedar trees, soak those so they became malleable, ... ranging from 900 to 2,000 years ago. Carriere's clam basket weave, ...
Projects included: cattail baskets, yarn baskets, wool bags, wool headbands, pine needle baskets, beargrass bracelets, cedar baskets, cedar jewelry and a soap root brush. Sitting together weaving ...
The ancient Native tradition of weaving baskets is now grabbing the attention of the contemporary art world. Jeffrey Brown visited one artist who is taking the form in new directions. It's for our ...
But Craig has used other materials such as cedar, maple, sedges and rushes for the countless baskets she's made. While basket weaving is a common practice among Indigenous cultures, the materials ...
The ingenious minds at Primitive Technology compare coiled and cane weaving techniques in crafting functional natural fiber ...
Petersen said her family has been basket weaving since the signing of the Chehalis River Treaty in 1855. ... a Chehalis Tribe member, learned how to weave cedar baskets from family members, too.
Stephanie Craig is a seventh-generation basket weaver, artist and enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde whose exhibit, "Hands of the Ancestors" is on display from April 2 - May ...
A Mi'kmaw woman is reviving cedar weaving based on pictures of artifacts found at the Augustine Mound in New Brunswick. Katrina Sock is weaving a cedar mat with the public's help, one weft at a time.
The ancient Native tradition of weaving baskets is now grabbing the attention of the contemporary art world. Jeffrey Brown visited one artist who is taking the form in new directions. It's for our ...
Betty Pacheco and her aunt Yvonne Petersen attended Evergreen State College’s Holiday Native Art Fair on Dec. 9-10, selling handmade cedar baskets and more. Weaving artists talk their craft at ...
Yvonne Petersen said her family has been weaving baskets since the signing of the Chehalis River Treaty in 1855. ... which are cedar baskets with a distinctive characteristic.