Winnowing basket


stuart f

stuart f

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Hi folks,i finished this last week and i thought i would post the results.

I used the coiling method,which is really rather simple to do. It took me about about 12 hrs to stitch,broken up into 3 sessions of 4 hrs each.

The materials used were Straw for the filling and Raffia for the binding. It measures 19cms across the base and 25cms rim to rim,4.5cms deep.

As for the amount of stitches,well lets just say there are a LOT :eek:.

Anyway heres the results,and yes its rather frosty here this morning.

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As i said the coiling method is not difficult to do,but is very time consuming.

Well thanks for looking.

Cheers
Stuart.
 
Nicely done. Pretty and functional. Going to make a matched set or do something different?
 
looks great! i've been curious, is there anything native to North America you could use in place of the raffia? been dying to do this, but prefer to use wildcrafted supplies if i can (translation-i'm too cheap to buy stuff!)
 
CowboyJesus said:
looks great! i've been curious, is there anything native to North America you could use in place of the raffia? been dying to do this, but prefer to use wildcrafted supplies if i can (translation-i'm too cheap to buy stuff!)
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Hi CJ,there are probably loads of stuff you could use. Heres a link that you may find helpful. http://www.nativetech.org/basketry/coilindex.html

Cheers Stuart.
 
very nice; I have a couple of those but didn't make them. Have made a very small one...lot of work!
 
Very Nice work on that.
thanks
M/BK
 
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