Pine Needle Group
- Yahoo Group Mailing list formed to exchange information about the ancient art of coiling.
Used to promote communication between members of The Pine Needle Group but membership in
PNG is not required for list participation.
Organizations or Groups
The Pine Needle Group led by Pamela
Zimmerman. Member galleries, exchanges, instructional tutorials and more.
Coiled Pine Needle Basket
Tutorial
Learn how to make a coiled pine needle basket using this fully illustrated tutorial by
Marian Gee on the Northwest Basket Weavers - Vi Phillips Guild Website.
Coil
Basketry
History, background and techniques, stitch variations and instructions by Tara
Prindle.
How To Make A Pine Needle Basket
A simple tutorial with instructions that will teach you how to coil a
pineneedle basket. This instructional sheet is part of the
teacher's curriculum materials prepared for visitors to Kinglsey
Plantation Jacksonville, Florida.
Make A Pine Needle Basket
Online reprint of an instructional article by pine needle basketmaker Judy
Mofield Mallow that first appeared in the August/September 1997 issue of
Mother Earth News magazine.
Pine
Needle Basketry Instruction
Many of you will remember Debbie Norton (formerly Feather River Baskets) she
is rebuilding her tutorials for techniques such as figure eight start and
examples of several other starts such as four hand plaited start in her new
site Heart of Alamor. Welcome back Debbie.
Overhand knot
start to a coiled basket as Judy Mulford explains in instructional feature from the Carol
Duvall show. Includes project for
Pine Needle
greeting cards.
Bowl
With Pine Needle Rim and Pine Needle Accent
Free instructions on how to create a gourd bowl with a rim and accent row of
pine needles stitched on with sinew or waxed linen thread. By Ronna Wuttke.
Shaping tips for pine needle baskets
by Peg Arnoldussen.
Teneriffe knots on wire rings how-to
by Peg Arnoldussen.
How To Slice Black
Walnut Shells feature about how to slice black walnuts, hickory nuts,
butternuts and heart nut for use in coiled baskets by the late Bob Burlason.
DVD's
Nadine's Basket Supplies Gourd and pine needle basketry supplies including Crawford brand waxed linen threads, cabochons,
stone doughnuts, walnut slices and coiled basket centers, sweetgrass, along with
an instructional DVD - Basketweaving Essentials with Nadine Spier.
Digitized eBooks of Historic
Pine Needle Basketry Books
Don't buy CD copies of out of print or public domain historic basketry texts on
auction sites or other places online until you check to see if they are
available free of charge. Spread these resources around so that it is widely
known that they are available for your personal use without charge.
Come and Join
in the BasketMakers
Forum. Lots of friendly basketweavers are gathered there. Click
on "Guest"
to enter and read-only or join if you want to post (it's free).
Here is a list of some of the most recent Topics being discussed:
