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White Oak Baskets
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White
Oak Baskets are functional as well as decorative, although today they are
made as folk art with little intention of being used.
White Oak Basket making is time consuming and hard work.
Often it takes several hours to select a white oak tree that can be
used to make baskets.
Once the tree has been cut down with an axe, it is split using the
axe, wedges and a maul.
Using hand tools such as a knife, fro and an axe the tree is
processed into splints, handles and a rim.
It can take several hours to make a good basket and a more
complicated basket can take 20 or more hours to complete.
As you look at the baskets, enjoy them and remember they are a part
of our past worth being preserved.
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Featured Artists - Bobby & Mik Edwards
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Bobby and Mik Edwards
have lived on the family farm in
Jamestown
,
Tennessee
since graduating from college. They
describe themselves as plain, country people with a passion for the art of
basket making. They have been making
Appalachian white oak baskets for 8 years. Bobby
and Mik learned the art from Scott Gilbert and Beth Hester, both from
Kentucky
and from Josie Jones, a 5th generation basket maker from
Smithville
,
Tennessee. |
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