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It was fun to have a visit from basket weaver Jill It was fun to have a visit from basket weaver Jilli Oyenque from New Mexico yesterday. Photo of Katherine and Jilli in front of the living willow hut on a foggy day. Jilli is a red willow basket weaver carrying on the tradition of her Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. Fun to talk about the “yan” which she wild harvests and the farmed willow that we grow. Here is a link to an article about Jilli with some nice photos and her own narrative. https://www.181makernm.com/post/from-heart-to-hands-jilli-oyenque-maker-of-red-willow-baskets
Throwback Thursday Thanksgiving version. These are Throwback Thursday Thanksgiving version. These are baskets that Katherine made for Plimoth Patuxet Musuem that was called Plimoth Plantation when she made them back in 2011-13. The first photo shows three baskets she made for the blacksmith at the time Mark Atchison who I think purchased these himself and has since left the museum. The others are probably still there. . #willowbaskets #willowbasketmaker #katherinelewis #dunbargardens #farmtobasket #skagitvalley #basketsmadetobeused #plimothpatuxet
Typical willow stem galls on Salix purpurea in the Typical willow stem galls on Salix purpurea in the first photo. A midge has laid eggs inside the stem during the growing season and their larvae are now living inside the galls that have formed. The second photo shows some of the largest galls I have seen. I sliced it open and you can possibly see several orange larvae. The color and multiple number in a gall are signs of them being midges as opposed to sawflies which are white and would have a single larva. Though I should add that it’s possible that there is a sawfly larva in the upper gall cut open. These stem gall midges are quite common in the Pacific Northwest on Salix purpurea which can be a bit of a headache for people growing basketry willows. After the leaves drop is a good time to go through the coppice and cut these out and get rid of them. I should say that they are great bird food and I have many mature willows on the farm that have them. Purpurea varieties are effected to varying extent. I do have some info on our website about which ones are more effected here. I am always happy to make recommendations to cuttings customers (no need to buy a class!). . #basketrywillow #salixpurpurea #willowstemgallmidge
Some of the willows growing on the farm for basket Some of the willows growing on the farm for basketry. These were all coppiced last winter. 1) Irette and Lancashire Dicks. 2) Goldstones and Jagiellonka. 3) Green Dicks and Blackskin. 4) Americana and Whissender. 5)Vermont Red and Whissender. 6) Long Bud and Bleu. 7) ? Purpurea and Hutchinson’s Red. 8) Jaune de Falaise. 9) Natural Red. 10) Farndon. 11) Packing Twine. 12) Richartii and Dark Dicks (two purpurea that hold their leaves quite late obviously). 13) Fanny’s White (shortest variety when coppiced). 14) Rainbow over the farm on Friday afternoon. . #basketrywillow #salix #coppice #willowcuttings #farmtobasket #dunbargardens #skagitvalley #skagitgrown
Another basket that Katherine brought home to fini Another basket that Katherine brought home to finish from her trip to the UK. This oak basket was made with @lornaweavesoak at the @tearup.fest. Lorna calls this the “L’al Yak” basket bag. The oak bark tanned leather lid pieces were cut at the festival but there wasn’t time to finish. The nice awl Katherine purchased from Dave Budd at the festival also came in handy when stitching the leather lid.
Katherine’s finished rush basket that she made w Katherine’s finished rush basket that she made with @janeybaskets on her trip back in September. She lined it with fabric and added four strand round leather handles for a nice shoulder bag.
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