Crafting
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Cheese basket (La Fuscella) made with juncus
Türkçe I made a cheese basket using juncus. It’s called ‘la fuscella’ in Italian and ‘la fattoghja’ or ‘la casgiaghja’ in Corsican. It was made and used in many Mediterranean countries, but with…
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Neo Peasant Style
English Türkçe The clothing styles of peasants come out of necessity, practicality,frugality, the availability of materials and some beauty. As I’ve been working in the garden year after year, I realized that my…
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Linden Tree Bast Fibers
A month or two ago I found some pruned linden tree branches on the street and brought them over for extracting the fibers from their inner bark (bast). After peeling the outer…
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How to Bind Loose Pages Together
Things you need: A sewing machine A nail A hammer Cardboard and some kind of board Waxed thread Thick sewing needle First of all divide your book to 8-10 page bunches and sew…
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Making Beads with Fig Tree Shoots
You can easily make your own beads from young tree shoots.I first saw this idea at @foragedfibers feed in which she uses willow and dogwood branches. In our garden we have a couple of…
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Making a Rib Basket
We have virginia creeper and honeysuckle on our front fence that grew wildly over the past spring and summer. So after I pruned them, I removed the bark of honeysuckle and carefully coiled…
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Basketmaking Technique: God’s Eye Knot
One of the first steps of making a rib egg basket, is to make God’s eye knot, to lash the 2 hoops together. To make this knot, you have to use a very…
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Dyeing Wool with Virginia Creeper
Our front fence is covered with Virginia creeper / Parthenocissus quinquefolia (which I mistakenly thought was hedera helix).Now that it’s fall, we pruned it as it grew vigorously during summer. With all the…
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Hand Carved Crochet Hooks
Hand Carved Crochet Hooks Making my own craft tools was in my mind for a long time.At last we started making crochet hooks from the branches of pruned trees that we find around…
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Basketmaking with Grape Vines
Basket making with Grape Vines A couple of weeks ago,I pruned the grape vine that we had in our balcony.It grew uncontrollably in summer! I tried to pull each runner as long as…
