Birch bark baskets

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Birch bark crafts have been around for centuries featuring a variety of forms, functions and methods of creation. The history behind processing birch bark crafts is extensive across cultures and generations featuring rustic home decor to items with style and function like extravagant handbags. Working with birch bark to create handmade items became a goal of mine very suddenly. How I started Processing Birch Bark for Crafts One summer lake trip to the Adirondacks sparked a new level of…

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Up for auction is a beautifully made and quite large sized birch bark basket made by a talented artist from one of the Northern Indian tribes, probably from the Canadian Northwest. The basket was cons...from

Last fall I spent many an afternoon walking in the woods with my girls on the hunt for birch bark from fallen trees. I had big plans to do some serious birch bark crafting over the long winter... My high hopes didn't make it that far though ~ I did make a birch bark costume for halloween but that was about it! I decided it was time to use up some of my collection and thought attempting a basket might be just the project. This was a quick craft with very little supplies needed birch bark glue…

Harvesting Birch Bark: Birch bark is a lovely material that can be woven, folded, and lashed into a great variety of projects. If done mindfully, birch bark can be sustainably harvested without permanently damaging trees. The images in this Instructable were ta…

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