Cordage basket

The home of quality handwovenTraditional Adirondack Pack Baskets, basket kits for waxed linen and cotton cord. Linda Scherz designs, weaves and teaches.

Did you know you can create your own rope from plants growing near your home? Here are 23 common species that are ideal for making cordage.

Melissa King teaches how to weave natural baskets for Easter using materials from your backyard. Make log, hanging, and wire baskets easily.

Discover the joy of fast preparation fibres for basket weaving and basket making. Choose the fibres without long drying times and can fulfil your craving to weave and make now.

Basket making (also called weaving, coiling, twining depending on the technique) is a craft nearly as old as human existence.

You can make a startling number of things with items you find outside! Here's how to make a pine needle basket that's both beautiful and utilitarian.

Peter Bauer of Rewild Portland teaches classes on weaving baskets out of vines of invasive English ivy, Himalayan blackberry and Scotch broom, plants on the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services' hit list. His motto: Weave a basket, save a forest.

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Harvesting Bark From Downed Trees for Baskets: Over the last few months I have been learning how to harvest inner bark from various types of trees that grow where I live (in upstate New York). I have some experience with basketry from store-bought basket reed, and have been doing research on usi…