Showing posts with label pine needles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pine needles. Show all posts
Wednesday
Myrtlewood Magnetic Needle Holder Dish with Ponderosa Pine Needles
Puffiny Goodness!
Etsy artist CatLovesBear has included our ponderosa pine needle basket featuring a puffin in an Etsy treasury!
Saturday
Ponderosa Pine Needle Basket with Ceramic Hummingbird Centerpiece
An earthenware hummingbird is the centerpiece for this 4 3/4" diameter 2 3/4" deep Ponderosa Pine Needle Basket.
Grizzly Mountain Arts creates their Ponderosa Pine Needle Baskets from start to finish. As soon as the snow melts in the upper elevations, Dave and Jo start their pine needle gathering expeditions in the Ochoco National Forest in central Oregon. Great care is taken in the collection of just the perfect needles, which are then taken home and dried. After the right amount of drying time has elapsed, the needles are then soaked and allowed to dry until they have just the right amount of moisture to allow for handling. Sometimes, at this point in the process, we dye the pine needles a variety of colors. Artificial sinew is our material of choice for stitching our baskets. It is just about as strong a material as you can find and closely resembles the real sinew used in many old Native American baskets.
We choose to not seal our baskets with wax or shellac. The great Native American basket weavers of long ago would use pitch to seal their baskets intended to hold water. We think you will enjoy, like we do, being able to pick up your basket and smell the forest.
Unfortunately, we cannot sell our baskets outside of the U.S. because of the laws regarding the export of plant materials.
FREE shipping is our way of saying "Thank You!" for shopping with Grizzly Mountain Arts on Etsy!
If you would like to view more of our ceramic items, please visit our Good Dirt Jewelry Etsy shop!
Sunday
More New Pine Needle Baskets on Etsy!
Yes, we're still at it! :) We've been busy as bees photographing our newest baskets so we can post them in our Grizzly Mountain Arts Etsy shop. The four Ponderosa pine needle baskets shown above, plus one other, can be found here as well as additional photos of each basket.
Monday
Myrtlewood and Pine Needle Magnetic Pin or Paper Clip Dish
Dave turned this small 3 ½ inch pin dish out of Oregon Myrtlewood and accented it with coiled and stitched Ponderosa pine needles. It has a strong 1 inch Rare Earth disc magnet inset in the bottom. This unique dish can be used for pins, needles, tacks, paper clips or anything attracted to a magnet. More photos may be viewed at the Ebay auction for this dish. Oregon Myrtlewood is a broadleaf evergreen native to Southwestern Oregon and Northwestern California. Although different, Oregon Myrtlewood has a lot of similarities to the Myrtlewood growing in the Holy Land. Oregon Myrtlewood became popular for making gift items back in the early 1900’s. Oregon Myrtlewood possesses a wide variety of beautiful colors and grain patterns and is noted by many as being one of the world’s most beautiful woods. The colors range from blond to black with many shades of honey, browns, grays, reds and greens in between. Oregon woodworkers have developed a small cottage industry making handcrafted Myrtle wood products and gifts for visitors. Many beautiful gifts and works of art crafted out of Myrtlewood. In the Bible, the Myrtle tree is of special religious significance, representing fertility and life.
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