"Weavers Words" Vol. 4 Iss. 33 Date Sent: July 28, 2000 Web Page: http://members.xoom.com/dgcollins/ Subscribers: 1439 David Collins 408 North Devon Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone: (317) 899-5747 davidc@iei.net %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Do You Like Weavers Words? Click Below To "Recommend-It" To A Friend! http://recommend-it.com/l.z.e?s=210339 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% THE BASKET BOOKSTORE Stop by "Weavers Words Basketry Bookstore" for a great selection of basketry literature & save up to 40%. Over 40 titles to choose from. The address is: http://members.xoom.com/dgcollins/book.html %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ATTENTION NEW SUBSCRIBERS 1.) You can search Weaver's Words web page and back issues by going to Weaver's Words web page (http://members.xoom.com/dgcollins/) and entering your search criteria into the search box. 2.) If you have recently subscribed, more than likely you will read messages about a basket swap in progress. Basket swaps are organized by other weavers approximately every 2-3 months. So if a swap is in progress when you subscribe, be patient and a new swap will begin before you know it. Every subscriber is eligible for each swap as long as you fulfill you obligation from the previous swap. 3.) If you are looking for basket shops across the country, there is an extensive list on Weaver's Words web page. The shops are listed alphabetically. If you know of a shop that isn't listed, send me the shop's information for addition. Include all of the following if applicable: Shop's Name; Web Page Address; E-Mail Address; Street Address; City, State, Zip Code; Phone Number. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ATTENTION AOL SUBSCRIBERS For some reason some AOL subscribers haven't been receiving Weaver's Words through email. If you are one of these subscribers, or know one of someone who has not been receiving Weaver's Words, you can get all of the issues on the Weaver's Words web page. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ATTENTION ONLINE AUCTION USERS Make Auction Payments Thru PayPal Plus Get $5 - FAST, FREE & SECURE: https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=ka9zre%40yahoo.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Picture('s) Added To Web Page Since The Last Issue Karen D'Angelo's-----Basket She Wove For Basket Swap #9 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Hi Everyone, These few days the back issues on Weaver's Words web page haven't been working. I believe I just fixed the problem. Take Care, David %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Update on Basket Swap #9 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:04:43 -0600 From: "Faye Stukey" To: "David Collins" References: 1 Hello again! I'm here with my weekly report! I now have 10 weavers who have not contacted me about mailing their baskets... and there are 40 of us who haven't received our baskets yet! I want to thank all of you who have contacted me if you're late getting your baskets out... I've been able to forward that information on to your partners... and they really appreciate it! I will be sending out personal emails on Friday to those of you who I show have either not mailed their baskets or received their baskets. It's been so much fun reading about all the swap baskets... and I have to say, I've gotten to know many of you so much better by coordinating this swap. It's been quite a bit of work... but so rewarding! Faye In Kalispell, Montana... where here in the mountains it's in the 80's every day... hot for us... and very dry! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Kid's swap rules Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:25:25 -0500 From: Chris Carstens To: davidc@iei.net For Denise and anyone else who missed it, here are the FIRST WEAVER'S WORDS KID'S SWAP RULES: 1. Participants must be relatives of Weaver's Words members (children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc.) 2. Participants must be between the ages of 8 and 18 (or close to those ages) 3. The basket must be woven by the child (with assistance, if needed) 4. Kid's names will not be posted on Weaver's Words. Private email only will be used. 5. The sign up is now until July 31st. Include child's name, address, age, email address, and hobbies/interests. I will notify the child of who their swap partner is by August 2nd. 6. The basket must be mailed out to the child's swap partner by September 2nd. 7. The child should notify their swap buddy by email or snail mail when their basket is received. 8. The adult should notify the swap coordinator when their child's basket has been sent and when the basket their child made has been received. 9. To sign up, please email Lisa Carstens There are 18 kids signed up so far! This should be a really fun swap!!! Sue Bakken - The quilter's tote you are looking for is by Lori Champeau. She lives in the same town as I do. I can give her a call or call one of our local basket shops to see if they carry that pattern. They carry several of her patterns. I'll get back to you on this ASAP. I'm so sorry to hear about Bill Dunning. I didn't get to meet them, but they were teaching at our local convention in May this year. I will keep the Dunnings in my prayers. Lisa Carstens in Hartland, Wisconsin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Birch Bark and Swap Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:29:37 -0400 From: "Sheri Van Duyn" To: "David Collins" Hi Weavers: I wanted to post a few responses- Sharon Klusmann: If you are looking for Birch Bark, please contact Gratiot Lake www.weavenet.com/gratiot.html in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I recently talked to Carole Kaeding the owner who has a man collecting birch bark for her to sell in her shop. The prices vary according to the sheet size. The reason I know, I will have a basket of mine featuring a handle wrapped in birch bark in the Fall 2000 Issue of Just Patterns coming out next month and needed a source. I collected my birch bark from our families' cabin up north. I only take the bark off the fallen birch trees and know that other weavers will want to duplicate this unique handle wrap! Thanks for letting me feature your Americana Lamp and Utensil Basket in the Summer 2000 Issue! If you want to see Sharon's Basket, please go to my Site www.justpatterns.com Click on the Magazine Page on the Summer 2000 Issue! Good Luck Sharon with the 500 basket order--there is nothing so special than getting a hand woven basket! This brings me to my next post- Juanita: Thanks for telling us about finding our Swap Partner's Forgotten Email address. (Click on the Weaver's Words Website and then the Subscriber's List. I did this and it works great! I found over a dozen Sheri's weaving!!! But, I also found a few weaver's names unlisted, so you might want to check this if you wish to have your name listed with your address!) Yes, I knew that we are all listed there, but when my Swap Partner did not include her Email address, I wrote to Faye; we wrote a few times and had a nice chat, but I could have saved her some extra work. Future Swap Coordinators might want to include this in their postings! I did receive a beautiful Swap basket from Andi Szanti who wove a variation of a basket that was featured in Just Patterns. The day that I received her basket, I met former owner Deb Blair and gave back a similar basket because I am almost sold out of that Issue (Summer 1998). There are a couple of baskets that Deb want back as some Issues sell out and this Ribbon Basket was one of them. Andi did a great job because both flat and 2 pieces of round reed are used as spokes and weavers! Weaving with 3 pieces of reed at the same time can be tricky, but Andi did a super job and the colors are very bright and were repeated in the colorful braid on the top. I am just delighted to have this basket and cannot wait to show this off to my Guild members! This adorable basket was also filled with Goodies, which I am also enjoying! Thanks Andi for being my Swap Buddy! I am getting anxious to hear from my Swap Partner-Where? Deep in the Heart of Texas!! Be on the lookout!!! Weaving Wishes! Sheri L. Van Duyn Spring Lake, MI Just Patterns-I am not rushing Summer, but the Fall 2000 Issue will be coming out next month! www.justpatterns.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Knotting with Waxed Linen Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:27:42 -0400 From: The NorEsta Cane & Reed Reply-To: sales@noresta.com Organization: The NorEsta Cane & Reed To: "COLLINS, DAVID" To Susanne Olin who asked about things to do with waxed linen: You may want to visit our web site and take a look at this month's newsletter. We have posted some interesting things to do with waxed linen and hemp. Knotting diagrams are there too. Go to http://www.noresta.com/newslett.htm Waxed linen is available at The NorEsta in 3 ply-45 yd and 5 ply-25 yd spools. Eight colors now available. Check out our catalog on line at http://www.noresta.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Web site Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:34:53 -0400 From: gatsby@larck.net To: davidc@iei.net Just wondering if anyone else is having trouble accessing the WW's web site. Every time I try to go there, it starts to load, gets down to where the list of places to go are, then the page goes gray. It gets "document.write" with ('') on it. Then, I can't do anything. I have tried at different times of the day, and I can't get the page to work right. Is this my computer or are others of you having problems? Dot in still sunny and nice, Maine %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap basket Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:44:46 -0400 From: "Tom Rigterink" To: Hi everyone! Just had to write a quick note to Thank Angelique from Maryland for the TWO wonderful baskets she sent me! One was a small tea basket and the other a twill wool drying basket! They are both beautiful and I love them. Thank you so much Angelique! Diane %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 32 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:20:12 EDT From: Linhebert@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net I appreciated the thanks from those who wrote re: Osma Gallinger Tod. The following day, after I wrote the WW note, I pulled out 3 letters from Osma and enjoyed re-reading them. A tempura basket is simply a basket to put tempura in. A sheet of wax paper is placed in the basket and then the fried food on top. We wove them of wide binding cane spokes with a little twined round reed on the edges and medium cane for the sides. It has a neat curled border. Linda Hebert V. I. Reed & Cane http://members.aol.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap Basket Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:07:15 -0400 From: "Joe Conroy" To: "David Collins" Hello fellow weavers' I received my swap basket yesterday and would like to say a special thank you to Donna Young from Ohio. Donna wove a l white ash basket; it is rectangle shape and has an ash ear. It is truly beautiful!! Donna referred to it as a "catch all " basket; I have not decided what, if anything, I will put in it as it is a work of art in it's own right. It is displayed in our studio for our students to admire. Thanks again, Donna. Also a special thank you to Faye Stukey for organizing the swap and for David for providing us with such a forum. Last week I attended the Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts in Ludlow, Vermont and took seven days of basketry classes from Lita Leichter. Lita is a very good teacher who is willing to share her ideas and expertise with her students. It was a great week of weaving and making new friends. Happy weaving, Kate Conroy Stony Lane Basketry Exeter, RI %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Bits and Pieces Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:33:57 -0400 From: "John W. Dorris" To: "Weavers Words" More rubber band info. Sharon Chastain (on this list and in the class last weekend) said she had the same problem but it was when the rubber bands were old. The main thing I like about using the bands is that I can pull it away from the mold to insert the spoke which I don't think would work with Velcro but Tony your elastic band idea sounds like a winner. No I don't put them in the oven or a dryer. Tony, I have one of Mary Jackson's baskets. It was the first expensive basket I bought but trust me it was nowhere around her prices these days. I first met Mary in Philadelphia what must have been at least 12 years ago. I use if for potatoes in the kitchen which causes lots of people heartburn but it was made to use. I also use my Jeffery Gale basket in the kitchen. I have never heard about using the microwave to make spokes flexible. But seems to me that it would just dry them out more. It is the moisture that allows them to bend. In fact if you remember the straw paper plate holders that were all over (saw them somewhere recently) several years ago. After a while they began to crack and fall apart and I always thought it was because we put them in the microwave so much. Might try it with one just to see. However I must add a CAUTION here. Several years ago the a wood worker husband of a fellow weaver put some wood in the microwave to dry it (supposedly it is an accepted practice) and made the mistake of leaving the house. He returned to find the house in flames. So be careful. Well the rains have ended for the moment. Billie in Va. Beach %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Carol Antrim class Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:59:55 -0600 From: "Chrystal L. Higgins" To: davidc@iei.net I just had to write in and let everyone know that Carol Antrim taught a class at my store last weekend entitled "Antlers as Feet". If anyone is interested in seeing what the basket looks like, it is on Carol's web site. I will send a picture of my basket to David as soon as the film is developed. As there were several other local weavers, I am sure that one (or more) of them will also be sending in pictures. If any of you ever have the opportunity to be one of Carol's students, I hope that you do so. Carol is a fantastic teacher, giving lots and lots of hints and providing numerous and varied materials. Knowing that this class was going to take place in Montana, she brought lots of material from her home in Indiana that is not natural to this area. It was such a treat to see and use all of these treasures and to learn so much from such a great teacher. Thank you, Carol! Your class was so much fun and I gained lots of knowledge as well. Chrystal Higgins Kalispell, Montana %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Michelle's Christmas Cookie Basket Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:13:51 EDT From: Lewiscarolv@gateway.net To: davidc@iei.net Hi David and Weavers Everywhere, I just want to express a big thank you to Sandra Lyons for sharing this pattern with 2000 NCBA convention attendees. This is a very cute basket and if you received the pattern and have not tried it yet, you should. I plan to use this for my guild swap basket at Christmas time. I enjoyed all the information about Osma Tod and wish I knew where I could get her book Earth Basketry. Thank you David for keeping us in touch. I really enjoy reading WW and have gained so much from the information shared. Carol Votaw in Sunny today, South Carolina %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Basket swap #9 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:27:18 -0500 From: "Fleming" To: CC: I received a beautiful basket today. It is accented with a beautiful bright blue - sort of a royal blue. The Pattern is Festive Summer Welcome Basket written by Lynda Crowe. It is a free pattern off the Internet, however I can't read the URL on the paper I have. It is made to hang on a railing (which I have on my front porch) and has the cutest little "welcome" sign that hangs from the top of the handle. Thanks to Pam Hancock of Bangor, PA for this lovely basket. It will be very welcoming on my front porch (which is covered to keep the weather off of it). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Thoughts from a new member Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 02:07:04 -0700 From: "bnothum" To: I recently joined weaver's words and am thrilled to have learned about it, many thanks to The Country Seat for sharing the info! I have been weaving now for about 15 years after learning to weave a basic berry basket as a young teen. I was so happy to see how everyone wanted to encourage the kids swap, as it is an excellent way to pass on our love of basketry. With the exception of my first berry basket lesson and taking a few 1-2 day classes in the last several years, I am basically self-taught. I have really enjoyed the information that is shared among WW. I am hoping that there are some folks out there who can help me with my latest project. After years of weaving as a leisure time hobby through high school and college, I have decided to start weaving as a business. I have already secured my trade name registration and business license. I would love to hear from other weavers about suggestions regarding craft fairs/shows, if home party presentations have been successful for anyone and if there are any beginning basket business success or other stories. My tentative plan is a home based business, set up in a studio in my home, doing home presentations and marketing to local businesses. I am also curious if anyone has branch out into other areas such as putting together gift baskets and how that has worked. Thank you so much for any suggestions, and thank you to David for all your work on Weavers Words. Diane Myers in hot (really hot) Phoenix, Arizona - I'm also looking to meet any weavers here in the Phoenix area, I've only lived here a year and have not found any so far! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Stuff Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:01:22 -0500 From: Tony Stubblefield To: David Collins/Weavers Words Marianne - about storing patterns digitally - Unfortunately you have to scan them at a pretty high resolution to be able to print them out with any kind of quality and that would require a huge amount of storage space. Each page of text would need to be scanned at about 600 dpi to give a decent printout. You could do it, but I don't know if you would really gain much especially if you had to use multiple $20 a piece Zip discs. A CD can store a lot more a very low price, but a lot of people don't have a CD burner. The best/smallest way to store your patterns digitally would be to retype them and just scan any diagrams or photos, but what a pain. Now as far as copyrights go, and I know how hot this topic can be on this forum, you are only archiving something that you purchased. As long as you don't try to make copies to sell or distribute you really aren't doing anything illegal. Dianne - about hard wood staves - If you got the material from John McGuire I would guess it was probably brown ash and not oak. As long a sit is split or pounded material in the case of ash it really shouldn't take all that much soaking and there shouldn't be any grain to raise. I fit is machine cut it is probably cut form kiln dried wood where almost all the cellular water has been removed. You will have to soak it for a very long time and/or heat it to get it flexible again. You can never restore kiln-dried wood to the same kind of flexibility as wood directly split from the log no matter how old it is. Also since machine cut wood is usually cut cross-grain you will see the grain raise when it gets wet. Once bent and dried in to a shape either hand or machine cut wood should retain the new shape. I have to clean my basket room tonight. It is such a pit. The cats just love to sleep up there, I guess because it is warm, and they tend to push everything off onto the floor and leave a pile of hair in its place. I wish I could blame the cats for all the mess, but I can't. It isn't going to get done any faster by me putting it off, so here I go. Wish me luck! Happy weaving, Tony Stubblefield St. Louis http://www.JASkets.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Basket swap Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:17:39 -0400 From: "jparker" To: Just wanted to say a great big thank you to Laurie Semer from Virginia who was my swap partner. When I came home today there was a large box waiting for me. I am so excited. I LOVE the basket. It is hard to describe. It is a round basket woven from natural round reed, rust colored round reed and seagrass. It is very well woven with a gorgeous shape. She says she is a beginner but it looks like it was woven by someone who has been weaving for years. She included a miniature quilt square, basket note cards and some pansy stickers. Thanks. I can't wait til the next swap. Brenda B. Parker New Bern, NC where it's been raining continuously for 6 days %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Bulletin board question Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 07:30:33 EDT From: HiLowJack@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi everybody - My husband and I are getting approximately a coffee can full of porcupine quills. What can we do with them? Are there any baskets that could be made with them, or would they be used as embellishments. Any ideas as to what type of patterns we could use? Thanks Beverly & Ron Wood, Rhode Island %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:35:13 -0400 From: Thom Ailes To: davidc@iei.net I am fairly new and haven't been receiving the newsletter for very long. This is the first time I have asked a question. In the note from Tony Stubblefield today, he wrote about a fair that had basket for $1,000 to $4,000 ---- I've only been weaving for about 8 months but I have never seen a basket with a price like that! I'm just curious what type basket they were, are these people famous weavers, are they special materials (we use reed) or what makes them worth that? I read those price tag figures several times to be sure I wasn't seeing things -- would love to know just what the story is!!! Janie O'Green in getting hotter by the minute central Ohio! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 30 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:56:56 -0500 From: Roberta Comstock To: David Collins "Weavers Words" Vol. 4 Iss. 30 BODBASK@aol.com - (name? - you didn't sign your post) - Planning ahead for the ultimate disposal of your basketry related possessions is a wise move. I sometimes think I should do likewise. I plan to mark specific items to be given to personal friends and relatives who will appreciate them. I like to think that my library would have some value and hope that it can go to a place that will see that it is both cared for and readily accessible for others to use it. Some items will be of interest to one or another of the non-profit organizations I belong to or support. Some may be of interest to one of the local museums. Many of the supplies can be donated to groups that will use them. I haven't gotten specific with any of this yet, though. Melissa - Congratulations on your recent marriage! Good luck getting a new shop rolling. Andi - How cool that you get to use heirloom drawknives! My Swap #9 Basket from Barbara Peterson of Brookfield Wisconsin arrived. It's a wood bottom round reed serving tray in several shades of green and tan that is exactly what I needed for the middle of my round oak table in the dining room. It goes with the furniture & the photo mural as if it had been made with that spot in mind. Thanks again, Barbara! I also (finally) got a basket I made sent out to someone in a tiny state on the east coast. The ornament is coming in a separate package because it tried to escape when I took the basket out of the box to photograph it before sending it off to its new home. Oops! So please don't panic when the scrunched up yellow & white inner bag is empty. Both parts will be delivered by US Mail. I made time last weekend to take all 3 of the Betty Curry classes that she and her daughter Michelle Maples taught at the Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site. We did a mini grape lug on Friday evening, a small totin Saturday morning and a full size grape lug that afternoon. I do love working with oak! It's always a satisfying experience for me to make another Gibson-Curry basket. (The Gibson part of the name is from Roger Curry's Grandmother's side of the family who started the basket making business several generations ago.) Time now to sit down with my calendar and road atlas and plot my course for August travels. I'll be answering a number of private queries about my trip and available patterns in the next few days. If I owe you a response and you haven't heard by the 1stof August, please feel free to remind me. More later - I'm already behind on WW again. Sigh! Bert Comstock Lauderdale in Independence, MO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 31 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 12:58:38 -0500 From: Roberta Comstock To: David Collins "Weavers Words" Vol. 4 Iss. 31 Marilyn T. - I don't know Debbie Cates, but please convey my condolences to her. Linda Hebert - Thanks for telling us about being a student with Osma Gallinger Tod. I also have her basketry book. It's great to hear from people who actually knew the author. Chris Green - I like your will. Faye - Thanks again for running the 9th WW basket swap! I hope you received my message about getting and sending baskets. I got the email address for the partner who sent me such a cool basket from the WW subscribers list at the web site. Am hoping she got the thanks I sent her as well. Bert Comstock Lauderdale Independence, MO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 32 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:01:34 -0500 From: Roberta Comstock To: David Collins "Weavers Words" Vol. 4 Iss. 32 Margie Reck - How about a photo of you feeding your foal something from one of your baskets? I recently found a copy of the _Basketry Today with Materials from Nature_ book by Dona Z. Meilach and Dee Menagh at a used book store. Dollie Koch - Thanks for sharing the sad news about Bill Dunning. My thoughts and well wishes are with them. SUSANNE OLIN - Waxed linen thread is a wonderfully versatile material. You can twine it on spokes of waxed linen or any other material you want to use. It would work fine on cane spokes. With stiff spokes, you could also probably just weave it either in plain weave or a twill pattern. Find a basic macramé' book for knotting instructions. Many used bookstores have a lot of macramé' books cheap. Bert Comstock Lauderdale Independence, MO %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Swap basket Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:46:41 -0400 From: Winnie Organization: @Home Network To: davidc Hi Everyone, I just have to brag about the beautiful basket I just received from Gloria Logan who lives in Illinois. It's a Humped Bottom Pot Belly Basket designed by Susan Coyle. I've seen a lot a baskets but have never seen this one before. The spokes are space dyed jewel tones and the weaving is a continuous, using narrow flat oval. It has an oak swing handle. The design is beautiful and Gloria executed it exquisitely. She's a very talented weaver and I envy her future swap partners. Inside the basket was a book mark, list pad, recipe cards, refrigerator magnet and a mug, all with a wonderful basket design, and two packets of flavored coffee. I've been anxiously waiting all month for my basket and it was well worth the wait. Thank you, Gloria and thanks to Faye for taking on the awesome job of organizing the swap. Winnie, in wet Connecticut where I can't be outside today so I'm off to my studio to weave, inspired by my latest swap basket. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 32 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:57:07 EDT From: Linhebert@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net CC: Linhebert@aol.com Re: Howza bout a little Basket Fun?? It's summmmmertiiiiiiimmme- and the heat must be getting to us! We've decided to have a monthly Basketry Trivia Contest. On the first of each month, we'll post a Basketry Trivia question on our site. First person to e-mail correct response wins a $25 Gift Certificate from V. I. Reed & Cane. BUT- this month- August 1st, 2000- since it's the first one ever- we'll have a $50 Gift Certificate. Persons on our Monthly Specials e-mail mailing list will receive the Trivia Question automatically in their e-mail. (If you want to be on the mailing list, sign up on the home page.) The Basketry Trivia Question link will also be on our home page. Winners will be posted monthly (with their permission, of course.) Challenge: The first one is going to be hard!! Linda Hebert V. I. Reed & Cane http://www.basketweaving.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Christmas in August?? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:39:04 -0400 From: "Andy Ingram" To: OK - I admit-I've had my nose pressed to the front door for a few days now, waiting on my swap basket. Today was the day! It was like an unending box of goodies, including TWO bags of homemade potato chips, TWO jars of homemade jellies, TWO bars of handmade soaps, and TWO ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL WAXED LINEN BASKETS!!! Dolores Gatz was my swap partner, and she outdid herself. She sent a purple linen pouch necklace, with rows of bark intertwined, about the size of a credit card. It's so cool. Then she sent a green linen and elm bark basket called the Spirit Keeper Basket. It is about five inches high, round, with beautiful embellishments. It already has a place of honor beside my antler basket made by Chrystal Higgins and my mini bark baskets from Pat Paul. Ya'll are just decorating my house so well!!! And how did you all coordinate the colors so nicely??? It's amazing!! These swaps just brighten my days up so well, thank you so much to all who participate, and especially to Delores Gatz for making my day today! Also, thanks to everyone who responded both privately and through WW about my Williamsburg problems. I think I will try again, with a smaller one, and weaving from the inside, as many of your suggested. I love Williamsburg handles, and make rectangular ones and wall baskets with them all the time, so I am determined to master the round ones too! Thanks for all your help, everyone. Still smiling from swappin, Leigh Ingram in Laurinburg, NC with the first day of sunshine all week! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Questions and Answers Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:32:19 -0400 From: "Sheri Van Duyn" To: "David Collins" From: sheri@justpatterns.com Hi Basket Weavers! I have a few questions that I need help in answering and posting them here should get great results! Please go to my Website www.justpatterns.com Click on the Weaver's Page and then click on the Weaver's Forum. This is where my questions come from--The first is from a Canadian Weaver who does Swedish Weaving or Huck Embroidery; she wonders if anyone does this type of weaving or has any patterns!?????? Then there are 2 Weavers who wish to weave hats from palm fronds-does anyone have a book or pattern for this unique weaving!?????? Help these weavers out; please post the answer here as we will all want to know and I can post on my Site! Thanks in advance! Please feel free to visit this Forum to ask and answer questions! Weaving Wishes! Sheri L. Van Duyn Just Patterns www.justpatterns.com Spring Lake, MI %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: I received my basket! Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:11:19 -0600 From: "Faye Stukey" To: "David Collins" I am so excited! Like several of you... I've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of my swap basket. Wednesday I received a postcard in the mail from UPS... telling me that I had a package at the local UPS Center that needed to be picked up. So... yesterday my daughter and I drove to town and picked up my package. Needless to say, the box didn't make it to the car before I managed to open it! Lyn Levan of Pennsylvania made me a beautiful basket, which she says is a variation of Eileen LePorte's Praire Gathering Basket. The background color is a beautiful driftwood, and it is accented with rows of dark green and brown. I absolutely love it! It's a perfect size to hold some of the rods I've gathered this year... I'll have to take a picture to post on Weavers Words! In the basket Lyn included some goodies from her area... a bag of Hershey's, a yummy bar of Raspberry Cream soap, a tablet of basketry notepaper, and a beautiful miniature egg basket. Thank you very much, Lyn, for the beautiful basket and the goodies! Faye Kalispell, Montana %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: WW/Update: Bill Dunning Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:50:35 -0400 From: "mkoch" To: Hello Everyone, It saddens me to pass this news on to everyone, Bill Dunning passed away yesterday morning, Thursday 7/27. FYI: Pat's home address is: 1928 Knoll Lane, Goshen OH 45122-9209 Pat's email address is: bpdunning@fuse.net Bill will be shown Monday evening 7/31 5pm to 8pm at Tufts Funeral Home 1668 State Rd 28 Goshen OH 45122 513/722-2430 Funeral will be Tuesday morning 8/1 at 11am. Your support & prayers are greatly appreciated!!!! Thank you, Dollie Koch %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Info Please Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:25:55 EDT From: ZOOBAR@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net I'm heading to Malaga New Jersey around Aug. 4th for a week. Does anyone know of shops in that general area that carry basket supplies? If you can give me the name, address and phone number, it would be much appreciated. Blythe Barbara, The Ten Thumbs Weaver. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Basket story & ? Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 18:22:50 -0500 From: "purrx3@stlnet.com" To: "David Collins weavers words" Hi all! I hope all of you, and especially David, are having a great summer. I really enjoyed the story of the Chinese moving a hill 'basket by basket.' When my husband was stationed in Okinawa with the Navy during the mid-70s, we spent a week of R&R in Seoul, Korea. In our efforts to locate the brass factory (I still have the lamps and a couple other pieces I bought there), we came across that story in real life. We were there in early spring, not long after the rivers and streams had thawed. A canal was being dredged - by hand! We could see at least 100 people lined up on a narrow (about two feet wide) muddy, slippery dirt path. A concrete block wall was directly behind them, so there was no room for error. How many more were involved in this project I have no idea, as the canal, path, and wall curved sharply so we could not see where the project began. What we did see was all of these people passing buckets, enamel bowls, etc. from beyond our sight to the road we were walking along. The last person in line emptied the bucket/pan/ or whatever of mud and muck into a waiting truck. The pans etc. were stacked until the designated 'carrier' had all that he/she could carry. This person then very carefully carried their huge unbalanced load of containers back along the narrow path, out of our sight (presumably to the beginning of the project). I took a picture of this (slide) and it still amazes me how these people worked together - all ages, all styles of dress, etc. on a cold, misty day - and were cheerful about it. (Wish I'd been basket addicted then; I'm sure I could have found some interesting classes and collectibles.) I will have to dig out that picture, run off the basket-by-basket story and share it with my students. Cahokia Mounds (a U.N. designated historical site) just over the Mississippi from St. Louis in Illinois) was built by Mississippian Native Americans (I believe) over 1000 years ago. This site incorporated an astronomical calendar as accurate as Stonehenge. (It is called Woodhenge as it was made of timber.) A 'mound', or more accurately earthen pyramid, larger than the Great Pyramid in outside dimensions, height and volume, was created by these people by carrying back carrier baskets full of dirt. It's been several years since I've been there, but I remember an exquisitely re-created village and even though I wasn't basket addicted then either, I do remember seeing woven mats, roofs, and of course a variety of baskets used for storage as well as building their mounds. If I remember correctly, it took 40 years, thousands or workers, and multi-millions of baskets full of dirt to build the largest mound. (When I re-read this I decided I must re-visit the site and re-fresh my memory) Now to a question that I should know the answer to but don't. I made an oak basket with Luke Block last spring and have finally found the perfect use for it - it holds fingertip towels in my guest bathroom. Should this basket be 'sealed' with something to keep it from getting damp/wet from the sink? Would clear Weavers Stain or some kind of varnish be appropriate? Thanks. I look forward to hearing about how to get antique baskets appraised. I only have one, but it has always set on my grandmother's treadle sewing machine. The machine is from the 1890s and I'm guessing the basket (which fits well on the top of the case, but not perfectly so I don't think it was custom made to go with the machine) and to my uneducated 'naturals' eye is willow and as old, if not older, than the sewing machine. When I did a lot of sewing, I had a sign that said 'The one who dies with the most fabric wins.' While modifying that saying to "The one who dies with the most basketmaking supplies wins" could work, but I really like the creative ideas for using those supplies better. Elaine in St. Louis where it's been awfully hot, but we've had rain all day. Now it's not as hot, just feels that way because of the heat! GO CARDS! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Subject: Re: "Weavers Words" V. 4 I. 32 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:31:47 EDT From: CBasketbear@aol.com To: davidc@iei.net Hi everybody, I just wanted to tell everybody about the basket that arrived at my house today. It was my basket swap basket made by Bert Comstock. She made the best basket I have ever had and I can't thank her enough. I only do reed baskets and I have always hoped doing these swaps that some day I would receive a basket made out of natural materials, as I have never done any thing like that. Not that I have not gotten nice baskets from swaps as I have gotten very nice baskets from all the swaps but this basket is very special to me. Bert made me a diagonal twill woven basket made from cattail leaves that she gathered and dried herself. It is fantastic and I will for sure take a picture of this basket to share with everybody. So this is for you Bert THANK YOU. Claudia Hopkins from Chepachet Rhode Island %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If for any reason you would ever like to cancel your subscription, simply send me a message with "unsubscribe" as your subject.