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

[Blindhands at aol.com]

It is not a school.  It is a work place for the handicap.  This  place was 
started some 20 or 30 years back by some graduate students from  Yale.  The 
company that this is part of helps train handicap people and  help them to 
find jobs.  They also take care of severe handicap people and  I believe they 
even have group homes.  So I am working in a part that they  repair recane 
chairs and weave rush chairs that the public bring in to the  shop.  They do 
not charge as much as the competitive chair weaving places,  but folks that 
bring the chairs in to be done need to be patient.  They do  have plenty of 
work waiting to be done and I go 2 days a week.  They are  only open 
something like 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and are closed on Friday and the  weekend.  I 
roll in there between 9 and 9:30 a.m. and by maybe 10 a.m.  there are 5 of us 
there.  There are 2 guys that come on the days that I am  there and stay 
for only around 1 1/2 to 2 hours and then they leave.  They  have 2 people 
that do the training and right now one of them is almost one on  one with me 
while I am learning.  So I have 3 more weeks of the 90 day  training and I am 
hoping I will get another 90 day training period.  I have  heard them tell 
the blind agency they will hire me if I want to stay.  So I  will see what 
happens.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 1/23/2011 3:28:43 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
magkisa83 at gmail.com writes:

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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