Burdock & Bramble Coil Basket: part one
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Following on from my video on preparing Burdock for basketry, we select bramble for the bindings and start the base of our coil basket.
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The false starts are what we are likely, as newbies, to encounter and teach us how to deal with them. I love the knowledge of "old" ways and natural materials, thank you for sharing your craft 🙏🇦🇺
this video is helping me so much wrap my mind around these sort of coil baskets. So many tutorials show how to make a coil basket with a specific crochet needle and store bought string. I am grateful for your video because burdock and blackberry are some of the most common plants in my yard. thanks!
I would rather see false starts than someone doing it perfectly every time. It makes me feel better about my fumbling about. Your descriptions are perfect for a beginner… Thank you very very much! Happy Hedge Bothering from New Scotland 😉
I love your little metal tube. When I was taught pine needle basketry, we used a short section of plastic soda straw to gauge our needle bundles. Not a primitive product, but very effective.
You are so clearly explaining things (plus throwing in history, can't go wrong). I have been searching for simple instruction. And you provided it.
Thank you!
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Wish I had seen this video last year. The burdock had over taken the yard at this house we moved to. Burdock and husky fur don't mix so I set out to destroy the plants. Sadly, they're winning the battle but the weed-eater now makes them manageable. I might have to fence off an area now to let them grow! Thanks for the informative video.
Such fun learning this skill, by a teacher who shows us reality in crafting, I love the rustic feel and look. Thank you for your videos!
Ummm the little tube could be a piece of a plastic straw to begin with. I need a gauge to help me grasp this new craft.
Absolutely, use whatever makes sense
Thank you for this wonderful presentation, especially the false starts, which end up clarifying. Looking forward to the next step!
Thank you for your videos. Muchas gracias 🙏
I would imagine a small circular bone hollowed out would work well as a gauge too, depending on how smooth you can make the inside 🤔
Wonderful informative video as always. You’re an excellent educator, I love how conversational your teaching is!
A lovely small basket that will serve a good purpose and please the spirit as well!
The little tubes that come inside rolls of dog waste bags look like they're close to the same dimensions of your brass tube. I've seen them used in exactly this way for making fabric core baskets held together with crochet thread.
Thank you for all your wonderful tutorials! I really enjoy learning more about fibre work.
Very clever..enjoy your meddling with the brambles
The use of this gauge tube is really clever. I'm totally going to steal this technique, but with a hollowed-out piece of elder instead of bronze.
That would be an excellent idea, elder is perfect for the job, so easy to shape.
i learned the basics of this style of basketry years ago from a pine needle basket kit. you have inspired and excited me to go make a locally sourced little basket :)
Sally, I appreciate your very clear instructions. Thanks so much!
Can't wait to see the finished basket! 😆
Inspiring
Brilliant 🙌🙌
For the tube, its easy to use an old pen with the ink tube removed and sawn/cut down to size.
Great bit of recycling!
Thanks for your video! I have already made 2 cattail and hemp cord baskets using this method. This summer I plan to make a bramble and burdock basket as I have lots of burdock in my yard and there's loads of brambles where I live. :)
Thank you Sally! After your burdock processing video I found some really long stalks of it here on my land in western Montana and gave it a try. By far the easiest to process I thought. It's a bit brittle for twisting tho. Is this your experience? But I really like the feel of it. Also this summer I've watched videos teaching myself to process other fiber and make cordage out of dogbane (used historically by local tribes of this area; I know a spot where it grows near a big river), nettle, which grows on my land, the pretty long silver hair from my own head (making a magic silver thread!) And now burdock and bramble which does not grow wild here but I've a friend with some in her garden! Have you ever tried teasel - it, like bramble very poky? A fiber artist friend of mine taught me many plants whose above ground portions persist over winter have great potential for fiber. I look at plants in a whole new light now. Thank you so much for teaching me your craft. And I love your approach - live and raw and imperfect! Beautiful
'if I had a brain I'd be scary' 😂using tht one forever now
Very interesting, thank you Sally.
Can’t wait to try this,wonderful tutorial
I just subbed. Best channel I’ve found over many years on UA-cam
Thank you!
This is a fantastic! Thank you very much.
Loved this. Thanks so much.
Nicely explained. Thank you
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How did you know?? Just a week or two ago I was wondering how to make a basket, but out of pine needles, and was hoping against hope you'd do a video on it. Now I'll have a use for all the blackberry fiber I have, thank you so much - your timing could not have been better!
Excellent! Will look forward to hearing how it comes out!
fascinating.
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Fantastic! Wish you had shown the wetting process so we could get an idea about how wet we want it to work with: Great tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing this! You are far too pleasant to be Boring.. Not to worry. Found the use of the tube particularly fascinating. Again; Thanks! Oh; I never realized you could eat Burdock. Learn a lot here!
Really pleased you are enjoying them. Re the wetting, it's about damp enough to be pliable but not so wet as to swell the fibres which will cause shrinkage later. Just a quick dunk in water, then allow to rest for a few minutes is generally fine.
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Thank you for responding with the wetting info. Really nice site you have here, thanks for sharing this stuff with us.
Wind chimes might be a good source of the metal tubing.
Your videos are getting more polished as time goes by :) Nice job!
I haven't made a basket since I was a child, but this would be a great use for all the burdock I have. What other fibers would work well for the wrapping thread?
Thank you! I've used all sorts of cordage fibre in the past, if it's long strips like lime bast or other barks, you can just do as I'm doing with the bramble, if it's a little short then cord as you go and essentially use a thin thread to stitch it all down. It's a very adaptable technique.
How did you manage to turn your 'oval' at the beginning into the round shape you ended up with? Was it just a matter of manipulating it into a 'round' as you were doing it?
Yes, it's a fairly short hop from a small oval to a mostly round shape
I was thinking maybe a spaghetti measure could be used as a gauge.
Worth a try, as long as it's not too bulky in which case it might get in the way. Try taping a cone of stuff paper to size too.
Whatever cylindrical thing keeps your core material the right thickness can be used.
Thank you for this, it’s so interesting! As I a complete beginner at this sort of thing, do you have any suggestions for the sort of fibre that could be used on place of burdock? I haven’t managed to find any. Thank you!
Long grass, rope, horseradish fibre, lavender stalks, dried rushes, pine needles, twisted newspaper strips...the beauty of coil baskets is that the core can use almost anything you have available. It's amazing what does work.
Sally Pointer Thank you! I might give it a go with pendulous sedge once I’ve collected the seeds for flour :)
A section of hollow large bird bone may also work as a tube.
Yes, definitely. I was looking at my bone stash earlier and I've got some lamb bones that will make good gauges for the next size up.
@@SallyPointer is that what you've made your needle from? If not I'd love to know more, thank you 🙏🇦🇺
As an addition.... I've just subscribed and looked through your extensive natural craft videos, I'm going to be very busy watching them all 😏👍
@@cbisme6414 the needle here is antler, I've got a video on making those too.
Alex Langlands (ShedCrafter here on UA-cam) has a series about making a coil basket with straw core and bramble binding, going all the way from gathering the materials, through tools, all the way to the finished basket. In the video on tools, he shows the tools he likes to use for that style of coil basket, and his main needle is part of a turkey leg bone. For guiding the core he uses a bit of cow horn, but any hollow bone or horn would work, or really any cylinder of the appropriate size.
Love the videos! I was wondering though, when is the best way and the best time of year to collect material for baskets? I live fairly close to a lot of bramble bushes, but they are carrying berries now, so I was thinking to wait till the fall starts. Also, I don't want to harm the plant or risk to affect any natural cycles the brambles might be part of
Once they are at full growth for the year but before they cook in the sun and go woody, so this year, the ones in damp shade should be ok but much in full sun is past it a bit
@@SallyPointer Thank you very much! I will have a look in the area. And also thank you for making all this information public, you have inspired me a lot :)
What else would you be able to use as an alternative to the burdock Sally?
Anything fibrous, grass, lavender stalks, pine needles, horseradish fibre, twisted paper even, so many options out there
@@SallyPointer thank you! First ever attempt with iris leaves today at a Butser Farm workshop. It's perfectly imperfect 😁
Would a drinking straw work for the gauge thing?
If it's a nice strong one, definitely
Does the old bramble, which you should cut off anyway, work for fiber?
If it's to old it will be brittle and hard to work. Best bet is to try it and see how your local bramble is to work with
This is so much like making copper wire wrapped jewellery in terms of techniques
Is there a preferable size for the tube?
Depends how big you want the coils to be, I did mine quite small as it's a small basket, a larger thicker one would use a larger tube. Experiment with a bit of card to see what size hole suits the gauge you find you like working at, it's not essential, you can start off without one and do it by eye if you prefer.
I was given a bunch of jute dose it need to be damaged also
I've not worked much with raw jute, let me know how you get on with it
@@SallyPointer it came with a bunch of macrame cord that I’m not sure what to do with
Muy bueno
Sólo que el ingles poco lo manejó. Que bueno sería en Español. 🍵👊👌