After checking in on Thursday, I learned a braid to hold together reed to form a mat from Anne Bowers. It was a little difficult to start, but came together nicely.
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Friday I wove a low bowl with a 3/3 twill pattern. We used teal, natural and smoked reed. The star pattern formed the base. Jenny Elzy lead the class. The final bowl was 9" in diameter by 4" high.
Saturday I followed a graph to weave this Cherokee design using 1/4" flat reed in natural and dark green. The sides were turned up and using 11/64" flat oval wove the sides with a twill pattern. Judy Wobbleton lead the workshop. The tray measures 15" long by 10" wide by 3" high.
On Sunday I worked with white pine bark for the first time. The pine bark felt like leather when it was wet, but dry hard. Jennifer Lee lead us in making a mokok, a indigenous container of stitched bark, a round top and squared bottom. Spruce root was used to sew the bark and to attach the rim of red willow. A separate lid was cut from bark and rimed with red willow. Jennifer wild harvested all of the materials for students to use. It was a fun experience. If you have the opportunity to take a class like this you should give it a try!
