Wild Basketry
Description:
We will make splint baskets and spoke baskets from wild collected materials, especially invasive plant species including wisteria. Learn how to identify, collect and prepare basketry materials. Plan out a basket, practice techniques of plaiting, weaving and twining, and how to finish with two styles of strong rims. We'll discuss handle types, and how to install them. We'll see examples of important primitive implements made using basketry techniques, e.g., backpacks, fish traps and arrow quivers. Go home with two finished baskets and the knowledge of how to make more.
When: Saturday Nov 14th, 10am-4pm
Where: Lanham MD
Cost:$35-$75 (slinding scale, pay what you are comfortable)
Ages: 10 & up (Children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult)
We will be harvesting vines for this. If you have a garden gloves, and pruning clippers we recommend bringing them. We will have some clippers on hand but it is always nice using your own tools. Likewise, please bring a knife to prepare your materials.
Jeff Gottlieb - Guest Instructor
Jeffrey Gottlieb, MS (in Biology), has been a Naturalist, Outdoor Educator and Primitive Skills Instructor for more than 30 years. He works with school groups, nature centers, museums, scout troops and summer camps, builds full-sized wigwams and longhouses and replicates primitive tools and artifacts for display. His areas of special interest include fiber arts, flintknapping, basketry, edible and utilitarian plants, and nature awareness. He travels widely in the Eastern U.S. teaching at rendezvous, gatherings and historic fairs. He has written a how-to manual on building wigwams, and an
instructors' manual entitled Teaching Primitive Skills to Children.
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