basket weaving

[frozenthunderbolt]

Canework by Charles Crampton is a great book - im selling one of my 2 coppies on TradeMe at the moment.
Ive used NZ flax and Thin split green bamboo aswell as weeping willows that grow at my girlfriends place

[possum]

tell me more about the book or give the link to your trademe auction, i could be interested.

[Bridgette]

I know this thread has stagnated for a while, but does anybody know how to... or know of a link to 'split' green bamboo and weave with it?

I've got loads of thin green bamboo growing on my plot and would really to do something with it... I've even got some papyrus growing... any ideas?

Regards
Bridgette

[snapdragon]

I would think a sharp knife whilst wearing thick gloves should do the bamboo - but am not sure how easy it is to bend. I know that 'cane' for chair seats is a climber not a bamboo

papyrus is a split, remove pith and flatten job I seem to recall (school many eons ago )

[Wombat]

I remember seeing a diagram of a cross shaped knife used to split bamboo into 4 quarters, but can't remember what was done with it after that......

Nev

[snapdragon]

and to add more to the confusion - I have a dogwood in my hedgerow and a forsythia, I read somewhere that these can both be used for basketry
My question is - knowing that dogwood is smelly (somewhat like dog poo) when cut - does it keep the smell when dry? Can I use it to make a basket that I could use for gathering/shopping for/storing veggies without the smell lingering?

If it's ok then now is probably the time to cut before the sap starts rising again



basketry or basket case??? My son said - I might resemble that remark