Making baskets seems to be a good topic this close to Easter. I am re-reading the book "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Kimmerer. I just finished the chapter where the author was learning to make a basket from John Pigeon, a Potawatomi basket maker. She described going with him to choose the black ash tree, felling it, followed by the hours of scraping and peeling long, thin … [Read more...] about To make a basket