[Nfb-krafters-korner] Basket Class who would be interested?

[Eleni Vamvakari]

Wow!  They actually have job training for these things?  What school
offers it and in what else do they train people?  I'm extremely
interested!

Thanks,
Eleni

On 1/23/11, Blindhands at aol.com <Blindhands at aol.com> wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I am in a job training in New Haven, CT learning to cane chairs and getting
>  paid to learn this.  I am loving it just hate the traveling in the
> winter.  This is something new for me as I am use to payhing for craft
> classes.
> What a switch.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 1/23/2011 12:33:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> dandrews at visi.com writes:
>
> We used  to make these kinds of baskets, back at the Virginia School
> for the Blind,  in the early 1960's.  Later on they moved up to chair
> caneing, but I  left the school prior to that.
>
> Talk about  stereotypes!
>
> Dave
>
> At 01:46 PM 1/23/2011, you wrote:
>>"The  hard bottomed baskets are the simplest to learn.  The  circular
>>bottoms
>>already have the holes drilled in them and then  you just soke the  reeds,
>>cut
>>to a specific length, incert  reeds into holes and take the  extended
>>portion
>>of the  reeds and bending them sidewase, each reed end will  lock the  next
>>reed end flat under the next reed and so on.  These  reeds  now become your
>>uprights for the basket sides.  You  continue soaking  your reeds and
>>weaving
>>them in and out of  your upright reeds until you reach  the height you
> want.
>>Then you  have to soak the top of your basket so your  upright reeds
> become
>>flexable again and then you can bend them over and  weave  them into the
> top
>>of your basket which wil give it the finished   top.
>>
>>Susan"
>>
>>
>>As Susan wrote above this is  a simple basket to do.  Who would be
>>interested in taking a class  in this?  If we get enough people
>>interested I   will
>>get the supplies and we can all work on the same basket.   Susan would  you
>>help co-teach this class with  me?
>>
>>Joyce  Kane
>>_www.KraftersKorner.org_  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
>
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