Classes Offered
Crafts
Broom Making
Tie your own beautiful and functional homemade broom. We will use cured saplings of hickory, moosewood, witch hazel, and yellow birch for the handles and broomcorn.
Length: ˝ day
Tulip Poplar Berry Buckets
Make a traditional “berry bucket” using Tulip poplar bark that you harvest, deer rawhide, and hickory bark. Learn tree selection for the benefit of surrounding forest, safe tree harvesting with hand tools, bark peeling, bark processing, and uses for various barks and much more.
Length: This class is best done as two half day classes to give the bark time to mellow
Timing: May or June
Tulip Poplar Woven Baskets
Weave strips of bark into a basket
Length: ˝ day
Willow and Rawhide Burden Baskets
Weave a traditional burden basket out of traditional materials.
Length: 2 days
Scrap Wool Mittons and Boots
Use felted sweaters and blankets to make toasty coverings for your hands or feet
Length: 1 day
Cattail Visors
Keep the sun out of your eyes with this easy to make weaving project
Length: 2 hours
Cattail Hats
Weave a wearable work of art. Learn the basketry techniques of twining and plaiting.
Length: 2 days
Rivercane Needle Cases
Create a handy little storage container while learning about our native Bamboo.
Length: 2 hours
Bone Working and Decorating
make needles, awls, and other useful tools out of bone and decorate them with scrimshaw.
Length: 2 hours to a weekend
Basketry from Nature
Create baskets from an assortment of Natural materials found in our area
Length: 1 or 2 days