Grass basket as a water container
My wife nade this basket some time ago and we decided to apply some pine pitch and bee wax to make it water proof so we could hold some water in it. And it really worked.
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Up north I had a client who was full blood Navajo. For her wedding she was to make a bowl from various plants and the weave was so tight that it held water without pitch. This I was told was to...
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Thanks Abo. I knew about the basket without the pitch to hold water. It must be very hard to achieve.
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What kind of grass is that you folks have there in Spain , Tribalica. It looks to be a very tall grass. I cannot say Ive sever seen any place around hwere one could cut that much long grass like that...
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MORE INFO POR FAVOR! How much pitch? How much bee's wax? Did she melt them together and paint it on or dump it in and pour it off? Wonderful basket making! Abo, I've seen Pima baskets woven that...
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Hi Quills. Well i guess this grass grows here in the south where we have this mediterranean weather, quite hot in summer and not very cold in winter witn not much rain. Quite different to the weather...
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