Calling all Basketmakers and Bee Keepers! This first-time North House Folk School basketweaving course blends two traditions that go hand in hand–basketweaving and bee keeping. In the 1800s bee keepers housed their working bees in […]
Craft Your Own Coiled Bee Skep Class! Read More »
Great Gray Owl by Betsy Bowen, Grand Marais artist. 10TH ANNUAL SPRING BOREAL BIRDING & NORTHERN LANDSCAPES FESTIVAL June 1 – 3, 2007 at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN. Discovering the birds,
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This picture is of Cheryl Winter, weaving a hand-twisted bulrush seat at a class I taught at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN in February of this year. Just got done talking with
Hand-twisted Bulrush Seatweaving Class in 2008! Read More »
Here’s a great article on the Science Dailywebsite about how protective the female Mule Deer is of her own fawns and those from the Whitetail Deer family, too. They go to great lengths against predators
Mother of the Year–Mule Deer Does! Read More »
Our son presented us with this male cat last year, who has a really bad quirk of jumping up on my shoulder any time he pleases! I was posing for this picture showing the flexibility
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Are you maybe new to the chair caning profession, or have taken it up as a hobby? Feeling isolated and alone, need someone to “talk” to? Do you want to keep this heritage art craft
Seatweavers Join the Chair Caning Forum Read More »
In June of 2006, I traveled to England on a McKnight/Arrowhead Regional Arts Council Fellowship Grant. The grant allowed me to study how willow is grown and cultivated for basket making and also to study
English Chair Caning Needle Read More »
Navajo, Southwest, early 19th century 3½ h x 11½ d x 36¾ c inches Wedding basket, bundle coiled with herringbone rim, Rhus trilobata with various dyes. Bruce Museum collection 67.03.33 If you happen to be
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