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Cherokee Basketweaving Tips: Beginners
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Tips on weaving Cherokee Baskets. Wednesday, June 21, 2006. If you are just weaving your first double woven, you might prefer the Eva Wolfe Double Woven since it is a smaller basket. Same with the Oklahoma Double Wall, this can very easily be woven without any colors. Once again no worries with dyes or color bleeding. This is how I learned the Oklahoma Double Wall using just plain #2 reed. Then as you get better at the weaving you can branch out into dyes and experiment with colors. Weaving Cane and Reed.
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: Cutch Recipe
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Sunday, May 27, 2007. This is the recipe used for the Cutch. Dye pictured above. The above photo shows the dye on reed and cane. Into your dye pot put:. 1 cup of salt;. Now add 2 gallons of water;. Stir in about a tablespoon of water softener, if you have hard water;. Comes in power form, so before adding it to the water, put about 1/2 cup of power into a small bowl and dissolve it in hot water;. Now add the Cutch.
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: April 2008
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Thursday, April 03, 2008. I must say, I really didn't know quite what to expect trying this particular dye on reed and cane. This is my first attempt at using this particular dye as well. However, I was very unexpectedly surprised by the results. This is how I did it. This Recipe came with the Dharma Trading Company Indigo that I ordered from them, it's also on the web. 4 1/2 oz of Dharma Dyehouse Color Remover.
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Cherokee Basketweaving Tips: Weaving the Bottom Corners of the Double Weave
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Tips on weaving Cherokee Baskets. Sunday, April 22, 2007. Weaving the Bottom Corners of the Double Weave. When weaving the outside bottom corners, the key is not to squish the corner, it should lay nice and even over the inside bottom corners. If your corners on the inside are off, then the outside corners will be off as well. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Weaving the Bottom Corners of the Double Weave. Indian Arts and Craft Act. History of Cherokee Baskets. Traditional Oklahoma Double Wall.
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: Brazil Wood
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Wednesday, January 02, 2008. If you're looking for a really great red for cane give Brazil wood a try. Recipe for Brazil Wood on Cane:. 1 Soak 4 oz of Brazil Wood pieces in about 1 to 1 1/2 gals. of water over night; then boil it for an additional hour the next day;. 2 Add 1 cup of table salt or salt of your preference;. 3 Add a touch of water softener if you have hard water;. 6 Now re add your cane to the mixture;.
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: More Cutch
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Sunday, May 27, 2007. These photos are still from the same dye pot shown below and as you can see the color gets progressively lighter. The very top photo is reed that was just dipped and swished in the Cutch. Twice The resulting color was just enough to take away that white not dyed look that reed has. Posted by Cherokee Baskets. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Flowing Water - Eva Wolfe Style.
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: Henna Dye Recipe
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Sunday, May 27, 2007. This is the recipe used for the Henna dye pictured above. Into your dye pot put:. 1 cup of salt;. Now add 2 gallons of water;. Stir in about a tablespoon of water softener, if you have hard water;. The Henna comes in power form, so before adding it to the water, put about 1/2 cup of power into a small bowl and dissolve it in hot water;. Now add the Henna paste to your dye pot;. View my complete...
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: Red Sandalwood
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Wednesday, January 02, 2008. By technical name. I use it here because in some books it's called Sanders Wood or Sandal Wood. This photo is too dark. The pink color is the *wrong* side of the cane, the pink/yellow color is the *right* side of the cane. I used the recipe for this wood similar to the Brazil Wood recipe, except I presoaked. This dye stuff takes a long time for dyeing as well. 2 Add one cup of table salt;.
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Cherokee Natural Dyes: August 2006
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These are Natural Dyes commonly found in Cherokee Baskets and Natural Dyes in my Baskets. Wednesday, August 23, 2006. Blood Root the Recipe. The photos above are of commercial cane dyed with bloodroot. These instructions are from Sandra Pallie a citizen of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and member of the Cherokee Artists Association. This is as she instructed me:. 2 gals. of water. 1 cup of cut blood root. 1 cup of plain table salt to set the dye. 1 coil of commercial cane. Adding alum to the dye bath w...
