Winter is the perfect time to learn to weave your own basket, so you’ll be ready to harvest veggies, collect eggs and/or pick berries this summer! The art of basketry is an ancient craft . Baskets have been found in Egypt that date to 4000 B.C. Long before the arrival of European settlers to New England, indigenous peoples were expert basket makers. The Abenaki use materials such as birch bark, sweet grass and splints (thin, flexible strips of wood). Program participants will weave a 10” buttock basket, also called an egg basket, using cane and reed. No experience necessary.
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