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

[Susan Roe]

The school in Hampton has been closed and Stanton is the only one open and I 
don't think it teaches adults, only youth.  The adult training center is 
Richmond Rehabilitation Center for the Blind.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eleni Vamvakari" <magkisa83 at gmail.com>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Basket Class who would be interested?


> Ooh cool!  Did you guys use any kinds of books or was it all hands-on?
> I just checked my list of blind schools and there are two listed in
> Virginia.  One is Hampton and the other in Staunton.  The page of the
> first didn't work when I tried it but the second does.  They didn't
> mention basket weaving.  This is what I mean about networking.  I sent
> letters only to those which mentioned a history of such classes.
> Perhaps, I should send them to more places.  But now that we might be
> doing classes here, I may not need to do so.  In any case, count me in
> as being very much interested.
>
> All the best,
> Eleni
>
> On 1/23/11, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>> 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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