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Very nice! Much better than I would do teaching myself. Keep it up and you’ll eventually become a master.
Do you also weave baskets? Its known what kind of basket weaving was done from the impressions on pottery pieces dug up. I do one type of weaving with wool and hemp, much easier than fingerweaving.
Spilleddi it’s pretty easy, just hit the ‘insert image icon, and follow the directions. Hint, the image comes from your computer files. Remy figured it out ok.Poor kitty! Thats so funny! Looks like something I’d do to my cat.
Heres my baskets, its an assortment of pop can holders, little purses, and hats.
Wow, nice work… Beautiful patterns. Maybe you could weave something a little more dignified for Remy.
Those are nice, Spilleddi. My wife weaves similar baskets. Do you ever attend the NW Native basket weavers conferences?
It takes me about 1 long day to make a pop can holder if I really work at it. I don’t attend the conference cause its to spendy. I learned this style from a fellow here years ago, just use hemp and Pendleton wool. I get the big spools of thread from the mill. The pink one is my first hat, so its a little lumpy.
Cool stuff. I never have time anymore to do much. I have a couple gallons of clay I ordered some years back sitting here, waiting to be made into coil pots. It’ll get all dried out, so I dug and impression at the top that I fill with water. It’s neat how quickly the whole body of clay will become uniformly wet, just a few days, then repeat the process till the clay is finally workable again. I’ll start something but get interrupted and never get into a routine. Last month I made a ‘pookie,’ a small pot-looking thing that’s really the base you use to build your cooking pot with. A cooking pot needs to have a pointy bottom to stick into the coals of a fire. That makes it much more efficient at conveying heat. A small one will heat up a cup of water in just a few minutes, a microwave doesn’t have much over it. Anyway, I need a smaller pookie than the one I have, so I made one, let it dry out, then tried putting it in my woodstove to fire it. Well, either I didn’t let it dry long enough, or I made the mistake of putting it into an existing fire. It crumbled into pieces within a few minutes. Oh well, heating season’s almost over. It was in the 70s today. I can just see me getting around to trying again sometime NEXT winter.
Oh yeah, then there was the perfect little cooking pot I made at the Intertribal Women’s Circle pottery workshop. Debbie was so proud of me. Got home, set it on the shelf. My girl’s got into an argument and one threw a pillow at the other. Whacked the (unfired) pot and busted it into shards. So the shards are sitting in a plastic bag. I could just add water to reconstitute. Then I have to rebuild the pot.
Attached are three pots I’ve made, still waiting to get fired, a big pookie, and a half-finished pot in the pookie.
spilleddi;36284 wrote: …I don’t attend the conference cause its to spendy. I learned this style from a fellow here years ago, just use hemp and Pendleton wool. I get the big spools of thread from the mill. The pink one is my first hat, so its a little lumpy.
I hear you on the cost. My wife used to attend regularly. The bill was a little shocking at times. However, the things she’s made as a result have been really cool. She gives them all away at memorials and other giveaway events.
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