Folded Birch Bark Baskets
Make a folded basket of birch bark. We’ll use hand-gathered spruce roots and brown ash splints to sew a rim on our folded birch bark baskets, which will be beautiful.
Birch bark is a special, quite unique material that has been collected consciously by humans for many thousands of years. Birch bark is very strong, durable, water-resistant and flexible; it has been traditionally used to make baskets, canisters and even canoes! Birch bark is also very flammable and can be used to start campfires. Additionally, the bark can be processed into a useful tar and oil that has been employed as a sealant, adhesive, and in medicine.
Learn to identify, regeneratively gather, process, store and make a folded basket of birch bark. We’ll use hand-gathered spruce roots and brown ash splints to sew a rim on our folded birch bark baskets, which will be beautiful.
6 hours.
$95/student