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7th Grade Art Projects coiled "Hopi" baskets, of yarn. An American in Switzerland,The Life and Work of David Dusina, Basket Maker. Makes distinctive three-rod coiled baskets, using reed and raffia. More photos added often, site in progress. The American Art Company, includes: C. A. Michel feathered coiled baskets Victoria Caluneo coiled wire Mark Caluneo coiled metal Sue Fedenia Bahti Indian Arts offering new and old Tahono O'odham, Pima and Hopi and baskets for sale. Baskets Carefully Created by Hand sweetgrass baskets by Mae Hall and Mary Vanderhort California Fibers Artist's Gallery with works by Carol Lang. C.A. Michel uses feathers to coil fabulous baskets! Carol Antrim Coiled Baskets using unusual materials, such as lavender, and beautiful woodburning on coiled gourds. Coiled Pieces by Gallery of Donna Sakamoto Crispin Coiled & twined baskets by Rosemary. Coiling examples, exerpts from The Complete Book of Gourd Craft, by Ginger Summit and Jim Widess. Coiled straw at the American Museum of Straw Art: this is the start page for the coiled straw tour. Contemporary Baskets online invitational exhibition, prepare to spend some time here! Helen Frost Way and the Princes are two coiling names which you may recognize on the list. Debora Muhl - Long Awaited, Debora's absolutely fabulous sweetgrass baskets debut in her own domain! She is also shown in Crafts at the Castle (Smithsonian Institution) competition. Also see her work at Thirteen Moons Gallery. Delmano Gallery exhibits change frequently. See the Current Exhibit with baskets Also see baskets by Don Weeke,   Michael Bailot,    Joanna Lindsly  Debora Muhl Donna Kallner coils with willow and other naturals, like siberian iris. She teaches, too! Eleanor Hartwell's horsehair baskets, with beads and porcupine quills. Also dremel-carved ostrich eggs, oil paintings and portraits, watercolor illustrations, and drawings. El Laqumajo horsehair baskets - "Straight from your horse's...tail". Custom crafted horsehair baskets for the horse owner. fiber coiled baskets - just 2 of them, from a class. Presented by Fiber Scene, and amazing array of galleries. Fiber in the Hood includes coiled pieces by Carol Shaw-Sutton. Seductive Skins featuring many forms of gut, orange peel,and similar surprising natural fibers. Embellished and Beguiled includes coiled feather baskets by Michael Bailot. Florence Mazyck sweetgrass basket shown by Traditional Crafts Collection McKissick Museum Freefall Designs, gilded painted copper, coiled and twined baskets. Gayna Uransky, Fiber Artist, presented by Silverhawk Craft Realm, showing coiled palm seed strands and driftwood to creat wonderfully sinuous and unusual vessels. Gourd Art Galleries by Deborah Easley Guild.com offers works by several artists who use coiling, including: Michael & Christine Adcock. Coiled basket of palm inflorescence and Jacaranda pods. Carol Warner, couched fiber wall hangings, embellished with "bits of coiling" Ferne Jacobs "Purple Figure". Offerings change frequently! Try a search for "basket", using their onsite search engine. Harriet Bailem Brown a sweetgrass basketmaker, is highlighted in this article by The Examiner, a Missouri newspaper. Henrietta Snype, Sweetgrass basketmaker, is only one of seven African American artists featured in this article presented by Home & Garden Television Fibre Arts Online shows more of her coiled vessels by Indira Bawa and Ruth Andre. Jappie King Black fiber exhibitions, including coiling...and lots of other stuff. Jean Connor showing a Chenille coiled on bungy cord basket Jonas Hasselrot - Exquisite coiled Birch root baskets from from Hälsingland, Sweden. Judy Wilson coils incredibly intricate miniatures, using a single thread of silk over a tiny paper core...you have to see them to believe them! Here is her old website, for those of you who cannot get enough! Jonathan Dyer and Annie Scott make sweetgrass baskets in the Gullah tradition. Read more about Annie Scott.

Coiled Baskets by Joyce Shannon NOT your usual coiled baskets...more like tapestries in basket form. Amazing images applied a stitch at a time...and kits to boot! You need to see these. Joyce has just completed an archive update, so there are even MORE incredible baskets to drool over! More Joyce Shannon baskets at Sunbird Gallery Karims -Iris leaves, wrapped round reed, coiling on gourds, worth seeing...and there is more, like spun dog hair baskets. Keely Berry-LeBlanc Unique Basketry and Gourd art, featuring a trademark raffia fringe. Kudzu Kabin Designs features kudzu baskets (and other kudzu products) by Nancy Basket. Leaves of Grass. Distinctive coiled baskets by Christine and Michael Adcock. Lisa Gatz Gourd Art Site Marilyn Moore, fiber artist, teaches classes in coiling, and shows a variety of art pieces on her website! Marvin Cohodas Baskets - "Willow baskets made in British Columbia, Traditional forms with original designs, One-of-a-kind collector's items", yes, all that, and more! An amazing website, with perfectly shaped coiled willow baskets in the tradition of Louisa Keyser (Dat So La Lee); baskets which actually take 500-700 hours to complete. Mary Jackson's "Two Lips". Also see her sweetgrass, pineneedle & palmetto basket National Basketry Organization Gallery showing the works of their members Pamela Zimmerman showing horsehair baskets, as well as other fibers. Peg Arnoldussen coiled this birchbox with sweetgrass, after quilling it! Primitive Originals sample artist offerings Robert Carrigan makes bee skeps out of traditional long-straw and split blackberry stems. He uses a section of cow horn to form his coils. Check his page under "makers" at U.K.'s Basketmaker.net. Sandra Eagle's coiled willow baskets, presented by Native Spirits. Singing Dog Studios gourd art by International Prize Winning Artists Ed and Darienne McAuley Southern Comfort: gourd art by John Gibson also see Sweetgrass Baskets offered by the same retailer. Suzye Ogawa's bronze sculptures are embellished with coiling, among other techniques. Sweetgrass Baskets for sale, brought to you by the city of Charleston, SC. Sweetgrass Baskets by Mae Hall and Mary Vanderhorst. Snyderman Works presents several works by Ferne Jacobs, in coiled and twined wax linen. Thirteen Moons Gallery presents contemporary horsehair baskets by artist Jane Chavez Tressa Sularz's coiled baskets are featured in this article presented by Home & Garden Television Weaving in the Weeds.com by Julie Lovejoy Washington Intermediate School Home Page, sixth grade project! Yahoo baskets. Yahoo maintains a photo file for use on their webpages. Here are 6 pages of baskets, from pine needle to Embera, from Navajo to African. All coiled, and lovely. Knotting So you thought coiling was a "neglected" art. Many basket makers will not even consider attempting coiling...BUT did you know there is another, slower, more involved technique, which has even fewer practicing artists? Take a look at these fabulous links to coiling's "sister"...the art of knotting around a central coil...where sometimes there are hundreds of binder threads hanging all at once...WOW. Angie Harbin, brought to us by Delmano Gallery Jane Sauer, I am told, is the acknowledged master of the knotted form. Here are a few pieces by "the Master":  Crafts Report   R. Duane Reed Gallery Here is a biography, along with additional works of Jane Sauer. Knotted waxed linen pieces shown in Delmano Gallery: Special exhibit, Knot That Small also see works by Leah Danberg    Angie Harbin      Norman Sherfield  Suzy Wahl Jaskets by J. Anthoy Stubblefield. Knots on the Web is an incredible source for knot links...not necessarily the art knots, but EVERYTHING. A great place to look for new knots if you are knotting art, however. Lois Rainwater's Knotted Animals an exclusive online exhibition of sculpture, brought to you by Leigh Adams and The Pine Needle Group!

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