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Birch Bark Beth
Keeping weaving weird

Beth Homa Kraus is a basket weaver, artist and teacher working with sustainably harvested and hand-processed bark from the White Paper Birch tree.

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Black lives matter
Justice for George Floyd

There is no basket big enough to hold the feelings I have right now - I have to do that work.
I'm so sorry and ashamed of so many things.  It's been an emotional week and I have responded with anger mostly
Not my mushroom score! BUT I made the basket, sold to an expert mycologist a few years ago and it couldn't be better used!
#nofilter #morels #jealous
Podcast available today @cutthecraftpodcast 
#craft #podcast
Wattle woven! Harvested a bunch (always more than you think) of dogwood, trimmed and graded, then drove the spokes in deep....three rod wale, double up the spokes and then kinda randomly hooped over every fourth grouping?  About 40ft total length of
Getting lotta sheath requests these days - fitting a knife just right can be tricky but if done right, sliding that puppy in & out can be rather satisfying. 
this stunner is a special knife made by my very talented and brilliant friend, Paul Lind
Lil cute Mora Kniv sheath ready to be worn & used.
#morakniv #pinwheel #birch #custommade
#nofilter #fruitbasket
Black spruce root >>>> debarked, split, and scarfed

To be lashed with more root - adding XL durability.

#sprouting #ramps #wildharvest #basket
#root #birch #diagonal
So now I'm home and most of my everything is cancelled....
Trying to rethink how to go about life.

This is a basket Im working on from the left over weavers of the students who didn't show up last week.  Planning on weaving a handle using spruce roo
I'm feeling very grateful for finishing my art residency in Grand Marais - enabled by the @northhousefolkschool 
I got home Saturday - was up North for the past two weeks.
I taught at the highschool for 4 days. I told the teens that to throw away the
Bark, bark, woof! I hope those teens are ready to weave today - mega push yesterday processing materials - hands are pretty sore today - but ready to weave our worries away!
#noteasysplitting #50baskets #teens
Should I teach a hinge lidded basket this fall? 
Or two compartment basket.....
#decisions #choices #class #proposal #hinge
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