How To Practice Over-Under Rhythm Without Losing Your Place
Over-under is deceptively straightforward. It’s easy enough for your brain to follow, but it often confuses your eyes, hands and willow rods in the process. One minute, you’re following a…
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How Thick Should Your Rods Be For A First Little Basket?
Your choice of rod thickness can make or break your first basket. If two rods are identical in length, but one is thick and rigid and the other is thin…
Why Do Baskets Lean, and How Can You Fix It?
A leaning basket often starts because of one minor inconsistency that keeps happening. One of the spokes is slightly further apart from the others than it should be. You are…
Determining the Readiness of Willow Rods in Basketry
To the untrained eye, a willow rod will seem quite ready even long before it actually is. It looks good. You can feel its quality. It appears clean and supple…