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Pine Needle Basketry Resources & Projects

Chat and Bulletin Boards

The Pine Needle Group - Delphi Forum

Pine Needle Group

Pine Needle Chat - Monday nights at 6PM Pacific in the BasketMakers Chat Room.

Graphics

Background images of forest textures including pine needles, cones and bark from Ian Alexander.

Gourdpatch List Serve

Pine Needle Group - Yahoo Group
Mailing list formed to exchange information about the ancient art of coiling. Used to promote communication between members of The Pine Needle Group but membership in PNG is not required for list participation.

Organizations or Groups

The Pine Needle Group led by Pamela Zimmerman. Member galleries, exchanges, instructional tutorials and more.

Online Instructions and Free Projects

Learn How To Make A Pine Needle Basket
Judy Mulford demonstrates making a pine needle basket in a segment on the Do It Yourself Network.

Coiled Pine Needle Basket Tutorial
Learn how to make a coiled pine needle basket using this fully illustrated tutorial by Marian Gee on the Northwest Basket Weavers - Vi Phillips Guild Website.

Coil Basketry 
History, background and techniques, stitch variations and instructions by Tara Prindle.

How To Make A Pine Needle Basket
A simple tutorial with instructions that will teach you how to coil a pineneedle basket. This instructional sheet is part of the teacher's curriculum materials prepared for visitors to Kinglsey Plantation Jacksonville, Florida.

Make A Pine Needle Basket
Online reprint of an instructional article by pine needle basketmaker Judy Mofield Mallow that first appeared in the August/September 1997 issue of Mother Earth News magazine.

Pine Needle Basketry Instruction
Many of you will remember Debbie Norton (formerly Feather River Baskets) she is rebuilding her tutorials for techniques such as figure eight start and examples of several other starts such as four hand plaited start in her new site Heart of Alamor. Welcome back Debbie.

Overhand knot start to a coiled basket as Judy Mulford explains in instructional feature from the Carol Duvall show. Includes project for Pine Needle greeting cards.

Bowl With Pine Needle Rim and Pine Needle Accent
Free instructions on how to create a gourd bowl with a rim and accent row of pine needles stitched on with sinew or waxed linen thread. By Ronna Wuttke.

Needle Placement Demo, Invisible Stitch Tutorial, and Using Agate Centers in pine needle baskets by Judy Mallow.

Plaited Coil Start by Pamela Zimmerman.

Pine Needle Coil Basketry with instructions, stitches and technique by Tara Prindle.

Shaping tips for pine needle baskets by Peg Arnoldussen.

Teneriffe knots on wire rings how-to by Peg Arnoldussen.

How To Slice Black Walnut Shells feature about how to slice black walnuts, hickory nuts, butternuts and heart nut for use in coiled baskets by the late Bob Burlason.

Preparing needles for coiling, using an awl and other tips
Phyllis Azbill is an accomplished beader and pine needle basketweaver. She offers several coiling tips.

Digitized eBooks of Historic Pine Needle Basketry Books
Don't buy CD copies of out of print or public domain historic basketry texts on auction sites or other places online until you check to see if they are available free of charge. Spread these resources around so that it is widely known that they are available for your personal use without charge.

The pine-needle basket book (1911) Author: McAfee, Mary Jane, b. 1840

Popular Mechanics Pine Needle Basketry Article

Pine Needle Baskets Article by Mrs. J. P. S. Neligh, Columbus, Ga., also an interview with Mrs. McAfee, of West Point, Ga.

Other basketry books articles, ephemera, illustrations, manuscripts, monographs, patents, periodicals and other basket making texts available as free downloads

Video

Pining For Your Spirit instructional video by W. Jayne Stanley owner of Gourdsket® Vessel Company.

Book of Pine Needle Craft by Veronica T Walsh	Pine Needle Basketry by Judy Mallow	Pine Needle Basketmaking by Katherine G. Thomas	Advanced Pattern Book Pine Needle Raffia Basketry by Jeannie McFarland
Pine Needles to Baskets by Kay Fisher	Pine Needle Baskets and Crafts Instruction by Ernest A Beardsley	How to Weave a Pine Needle Basket by Ginger Jolley	Pine Needle Basketry by M. Loffborough
	Pine Needle Raffia Basketry by Jeannie McFarland	Fragrant Basketry: The Pine Needle and Raffia Handbook by Katherine L. Armstrong

More Pine Needle Basketry
Pine Needle Basketry - Introduction