I can’t tell you what a miracle it is to watch a left handed person work, and not have to reverse everything in my mind for the first time in my life!!! Sweet little basket too❤️🤗🐝
Bob! Imagine my delight to find this video this morning! Your camera angles and clarity are excellent; and as usual, so is your commentary. Thank you very much for posting videos for all to learn from!
Amazing work! Thank you for sharing your talent and skills with us. This looks really advanced, so I’m going to try something more basic to start with and hope to work up to this lovely project!
My children and I where going to make this basket as a family project. The beginners kits online turned out be the size of an ashtray and my kids seemed unimpressed. We ran across your video everyone understood what you're teaching. You've done a great job. My question for you is, "what is the total feet for each type of reed (4,3,2)"? I'm going to buy the roles of reeds and though I don't mind having some extra, my wife and pocket book do.
Hi Bob! Thank you so much for your Videos. Can you recommend any sources, books or otherwise, that explain more complex weaving patterns or colour patterns? I already got Flo Hoppe‘s book but I am searching for more material to learn. Thanks a lot!
Hi Bob, wonderful instruction video, thank you! Like you I have a day job in IT but I have started doing basketry with round reed. You have great colors to work with. So far I have bought my colored reed in Germany, but your blue seems much darker and less dull than theirs. Do you dye it yourself? If so, what do you use for dark blue?
The reed itself is food safe. For colored reeds you might want to know what kind of dye was used. You could store dry things in a basket like that (beans for instance), but as a tea strainer cleaning it might be an issue. And repeatedly soaking reed might make it break down faster, leaving bits of stuff in your tea.