egg and melon baskets

After many years of basketmaking and lacemaking at the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival we've turned our attention primarily to teaching and filling special orders that come to me through this web page.

We hope that many of you who saw us at the Greater Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival over the years will find something appealing here on the site.

 

 

 

Baskets: Decorative & Practical

 
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Baskets are what got me started at the Renaissance Festival a number of years ago. I'm still doing the reed basket work I started with back then. It is a durable modern equivalent to the more traditional willow work or "wicker", though I will also have some traditional willow wicker work available soon.

I'm currently moving into more refined materials. This season I'm adding more hardwood and other traditional materials to my stock. Lots more work to do on this page. Just have to take a break from making the baskets to take some pictures of them!

 

Walnut & Ash mini egg basket

 

Additional Examples
of our work
:

Twill Baskets
Twill market basket

Onion & Garlic
Garlic & Onion baskets

Specialty

Antler handle basket

Supplier Links:
Royal Wood, Ltd.
The Basket Maker's Catalog
BasketPatterns.com
Walnut hoops, ash weavers, maple ribs. Lovely mini egg basket with God's Eye lashing at handle-rim join. Walnut and Maple Star (sometimes referred to as a Carolina Star). This one is about 8" across.

twill market basket filled with wisk brooms
braided handle on large market basket
Latest basket completed - Twill Market with fancy braided handle. Filled with Wisk Brooms by Sam Moyer, the Jersey Jerry Broomsquire (made from his own hybrid broom corn).
Detail of the braided handle.

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