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

[Eleni Vamvakari]

Ah, I see.  I thought it was a training centre or school where you
live on campus and learn.  I was hoping that I could go and learn the
trade and then find a place nearby that would hire me.  I live in New
Jersey, so unfortunately, this wouldn't work for me.  But I'm really
glad it exists and wish you lots of luck.

On 1/23/11, Blindhands at aol.com <Blindhands at aol.com> wrote:
> 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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