[Nfb-krafters-korner] making palm baskets

[Carol Osmar]

I wish I could show you the basket.  The guy makes a pretty good 
living at making them.  He told my husband this has been a slow 
season but he made fifteen hundred dollars.  Ed does not know if 
he said that was in a week or a month.  In any case that wouldn't 
be bad with no overhead.
 ----- Original Message -----
From: Eleni Vamvakari <magkisa83 at gmail.com
To: List for blind crafters and artists 
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:18:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] making palm baskets

I would have responded yesterday but my internet has been out 
since
Thirsday and they only put it back on today.  Something happened 
with
the snow and the ice...  In any case, this is truly amazing and 
what a
golden opportunity!  I'm so grateful that you stepped out of that
comfort zone and tried something new and then shared it with us.  
I
wish that there were people like him in New Jersey.  Perhaps, in 
the
summar, there are and I just don't know it!  I'll need to check 
New
York.  Needless to say, I have also been interest in palm baskets 
and
would love to learn how to make them.  But I've never seen one 
and am
quite curious as to the texture as well.

Talk soon,
Eleni

On 1/30/11, Theresa Taylor <tct71887 at gmail.com> wrote:
 Wow that is so cool...is it the kind of palm leaves you can just 
go pick up
 down there...I will be there in the summer, but I wonder if they 
are better
 during a certain season.
 Yeah....smelling someone else's hat...wouldn't be my cup of tea
 either...smile...but that is amazing it has no odor.
 Theresa

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Carol Osmar" <osmarc at sbcglobal.net
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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 Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:51 PM
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] making palm baskets


 Theresa, I thought the palm might get brittle after time but he 
said it
 doesn't.  He was wearing a hat he said he has had for 12 years.  
He made
 me smell it (yuck) but it did not stink.  Apparently the palm 
doesn't
 absorb odor.  THE color changes from green to a light tan.  He 
says the
 baskets will last at least 40 years.

 Carol  ----- Original Message -----


 From: "Theresa Taylor" <tct71887 at gmail.com
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
<nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:51:22 -0600
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] making palm baskets

 Wow that sounds like fun! I think it is awesome! I would love to 
know the
 texture and the like of the basket.  I know you mentioned palm
 leaves...but
 do they stay flexible or does it keep its shape?
 Theresa

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Carol Osmar" <osmarc at sbcglobal.net
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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 Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:57 PM
 Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] making palm baskets


 I have to tell you all about my morning.  We were walking down 
the street
 in Key west and a man was sitting on the sidewalk making 
baskets.  We
 stopped and I asked him if he would teach me how to do it.  He 
said he
 charges 40 dollars to teach how to make a basket.  So he taught 
me how to
 make a basket from coconut palm leaves.  He was a nice guy and a 
patient
 teacher.  Of course I was the first blind person he ever taught 
so it was
 a
 challenge for him to verbalize the directions but he did a 
pretty good job
 of it.  I can't say I could make a palm basket by myself now, 
but it was
 fun and I have a pretty good idea of how it is done.  I got to 
keep the
 basket I made and he also gave me a basket and a hat he made.

 I am usually a quiet, introverted person so this was certainly 
out of my
 comfort zone but I am glad I did it.

 Henrietta, I think ed will send Dan pictures.

 P.  S.  I gave him a twenty dollar tip and I think he got some 
free
 advertising.

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