Comments for Willow Basketmaker http://www.willowbasketmaker.com Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Laundry baskets by Steve@DunbarGardens http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2009/05/11/laundry-baskets/#comment-656 Steve@DunbarGardens Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:43:57 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=326#comment-656 You can start by visiting our website here: <a href="http://www.dunbargardens.com/baskets.htm" title="willow basket gallery" rel="nofollow">http://www.dunbargardens.com/baskets.htm</a>. There are examples of the baskets available, prices, and how to order. Thanks! You can start by visiting our website here: http://www.dunbargardens.com/baskets.htm. There are examples of the baskets available, prices, and how to order. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Laundry baskets by Linda Brackenbury http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2009/05/11/laundry-baskets/#comment-654 Linda Brackenbury Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:21:12 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=326#comment-654 Hi, I am interested in your two load laudry basket. Your baskets are beautiful. How may I go about finding out prices and purchase info. Thank you. Linda Brackenbury Hi, I am interested in your two load laudry basket. Your baskets are beautiful. How may I go about finding out prices and purchase info. Thank you.

Linda Brackenbury

]]> Comment on bottle pouring basket by Molly Gunn http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2009/12/11/bottle-pouring-basket/#comment-296 Molly Gunn Sat, 31 Mar 2012 04:00:33 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=670#comment-296 I have been looking for baskets like this for my bar. I would need 10-15 to start. Can you let me know if that would be possible and what the price would be? thanks, Molly I have been looking for baskets like this for my bar. I would need 10-15 to start. Can you let me know if that would be possible and what the price would be?
thanks,
Molly

]]> Comment on About us by Joanie King http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/about/#comment-294 Joanie King Sat, 31 Mar 2012 01:50:55 +0000 http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/about/#comment-294 I am so excited about finding this site.I am way over here in Pittsburgh. I live in a neighborhood with many abandoned yards. I am hoping to establish a teaching craft garden. One of the things I would love to grow is willow for basket making. Of course I know nothing about willow and less about how to make baskets. I myself work in clay and have a love for the material sensibility. In a former life I was schooled in the form follows function religion and my late teacher Makoto Yabe helped curate a show called Kindred Spirits referring to Shaker and a Japanese Craft Aesthetic. So you know I love your work. Is there any chance of yinz (Pittsburgh for you plural), Giving any classes or workshops out this way. I love the idea of going that way but my first travel Goal is Scotland. Also How many bushes make how many of what kind of baskets. Say each participant gets one bush. Also My best skill is color. I would love to start with basics of several kinds so people could learn the differences. If you could make some recommendations. Thank you Joanie King. PS Guess what: I have a budget. I am so excited about finding this site.I am way over here in Pittsburgh. I live in a neighborhood with many abandoned yards. I am hoping to establish a teaching craft garden. One of the things I would love to grow is willow for basket making. Of course I know nothing about willow and less about how to make baskets. I myself work in clay and have a love for the material sensibility. In a former life I was schooled in the form follows function religion and my late teacher Makoto Yabe helped curate a show called Kindred Spirits referring to Shaker and a Japanese Craft Aesthetic. So you know I love your work.
Is there any chance of yinz (Pittsburgh for you plural), Giving any classes or workshops out this way. I love the idea of going that way but my first travel Goal is Scotland.
Also How many bushes make how many of what kind of baskets. Say each participant gets one bush. Also My best skill is color. I would love to start with basics of several kinds so people could learn the differences.

If you could make some recommendations. Thank you Joanie King. PS Guess what: I have a budget.

]]> Comment on January 2012 newsletter by Steve@Dunbar Gardens http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2012/01/04/january-2012-newsletter/#comment-110 Steve@Dunbar Gardens Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:29:06 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=1069#comment-110 Hi Anna-Maria, we use willow that we grow, because we have a farm this is the easiest for us. There are wild willows in our area I am sure, but I have not gone out looking for them, the farm land and rows we have planted are right out the back door, and so are much easier. I also enjoy working with willow bark, altho I am much newer to it than you are. I am looking forward to spring when I can harvest some more bark, I am still learning how to process and store it, there is always more to learn, one of the things I like so much about willow! I've not done much with recycled materials, there are so many weavable plant materials here that it's hard to imagine wanting a new source of materials, but I have found myself saving strange things thinking of possible projects, so who knows what the future holds! Katherine Hi Anna-Maria, we use willow that we grow, because we have a farm this is the easiest for us. There are wild willows in our area I am sure, but I have not gone out looking for them, the farm land and rows we have planted are right out the back door, and so are much easier. I also enjoy working with willow bark, altho I am much newer to it than you are. I am looking forward to spring when I can harvest some more bark, I am still learning how to process and store it, there is always more to learn, one of the things I like so much about willow!
I’ve not done much with recycled materials, there are so many weavable plant materials here that it’s hard to imagine wanting a new source of materials, but I have found myself saving strange things thinking of possible projects, so who knows what the future holds!
Katherine

]]> Comment on January 2012 newsletter by Anna-Maria Väätäinen http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2012/01/04/january-2012-newsletter/#comment-109 Anna-Maria Väätäinen Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:28:34 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=1069#comment-109 Thank you for your Newsletter, Katherine and Steve! So much interesting to see! I like very much your baskets and your photos aswell. Do you use only cultivated willow or also wild willow. Here in Finland I can't imagine nature around you; I don't know if there is any wild willow :-) I use both, wild and cultivated nowadays; earlier only wild willow. My other materials are willow bark, which I like at the moment perhaps even more than willow, and recycled materials. When I work with recycled materials the main thing is to experiment materials in different techniques - not so much to sell but participants on the courses are interested in using recycled materials, partly because it is not so easy to collect natural materials and seldom possible to buy. I don't know if that sounds a bit funny if you think that we live so near by the nature, allmost all Finns do. With best regards Annukka Anna-Maria Väätäinen Sonkajärvi Finland Thank you for your Newsletter, Katherine and Steve! So much interesting to see! I like very much your baskets and your photos aswell. Do you use only cultivated willow or also wild willow. Here in Finland I can’t imagine nature around you; I don’t know if there is any wild willow :-)
I use both, wild and cultivated nowadays; earlier only wild willow. My other materials are willow bark, which I like at the moment perhaps even more than willow, and recycled materials. When I work with recycled materials the main thing is to experiment materials in different techniques – not so much to sell but participants on the courses are interested in using recycled materials, partly because it is not so easy to collect natural materials and seldom possible to buy. I don’t know if that sounds a bit funny if you think that we live so near by the nature, allmost all Finns do.

With best regards
Annukka
Anna-Maria Väätäinen
Sonkajärvi
Finland

]]> Comment on Magazine baskets by Техника плетения | Школа Ремесел http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2009/04/24/magazine-baskets/#comment-26 Техника плетения | Школа Ремесел Wed, 28 Dec 2011 05:57:42 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=286#comment-26 [...] Корзины Кетрин Левис (Katherine Lewis) [...] [...] Корзины Кетрин Левис (Katherine Lewis) [...]

]]> Comment on Paint Me a River! by Steve@Dunbar Gardens http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2009/10/06/paint-me-a-river/#comment-54 Steve@Dunbar Gardens Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:33:59 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=573#comment-54 Dakujem. Dakujem.

]]> Comment on Paint Me a River! by vierka http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2009/10/06/paint-me-a-river/#comment-53 vierka Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:21:06 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=573#comment-53 Krásny kôš. Obdivujem všetkých košikárov, ich práca je krásna a namáhavá. Krásny kôš. Obdivujem všetkých košikárov, ich práca je krásna a namáhavá.

]]> Comment on August 2011 newsletter by Steve@Dunbar Gardens http://www.willowbasketmaker.com/2011/08/01/august-2011-newsletter/#comment-108 Steve@Dunbar Gardens Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:14:16 +0000 http://willowbasketmaker.com/?p=1043#comment-108 Yes we did Barbara. We provided the photo of Katherine's basket. Did you see the on-line version or an actual print copy of the WSJ? Thanks for the comment. Yes we did Barbara. We provided the photo of Katherine’s basket. Did you see the on-line version or an actual print copy of the WSJ? Thanks for the comment.

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