Peerless Rattan Company is located in Plainwell, Michigan. Peerless Rattan has been providing seat weaving and basket weaving materials since 1903. They carry a wide variety of raw materials, patterns, instruction books, and tools for […]
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Just recently I discovered some of the most wonderful traditional Irish craft DVD’s in a series called, Hands, offered on David Shaw-Smith’s Etsy Shop. https://www.etsy.com/shop/HandsSeries?ref=pr_shop_more Here’s the description quote from David’s Etsy Shop, “A series
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Basket Guilds–Are you a beginning basketmaker or maybe a weaver that’s been at it for a long time, but looking for others to learn from or at least establish “community” with? Maybe you want to
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Have you seen the latest YouTube video on The Wicker Woman Channel? This one is of a weasel, called an ermine in the winter, who was trying to eat the suet at the bird feeder
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For years before the smoked rattan reed was invented, we wicker repair pros had to stain match the natural whiteish reed color to a dark, stained wicker piece. So once the new smoked reed came
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Today I’m starting another blog series and hope to continue this every week called, CHAIR CANING TIPS! Each Tuesday, the tips will vary and might be as in today’s tip, on chair caning tools. The
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Famous Relatives–Imagine my surprise when I opened the January 14, 2011 issue of the Minnesota Outdoor News, The Sportsman’s Weekly and saw an article about my second cousin, Rich Oxley, the book he’s recently published,
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Well, for a brief two hours this evening hubby and I got to experience some “quality time” together and to see what it was like to be without power with temperatures in the -20 degree
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