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Katie Grove is an artist and basketry educator, teaching in-person and online wild basketry classes from her studio in Stone Ridge, New York. A featured artist and member of the National Basketry Association, her art features woven sculptures, installations, and drawings using foraged plant materials.

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Learn to make artful baskets from foraged materials, with this comprehensive guide to identifying, harvesting, and weaving wild plants. 

Make a memento of your next nature walk, and gather materials to weave a basket! All kinds of plant parts can be used for basketmaking—including leaves, grasses, stems, vines, and bark. Author and basketmaker Katie Grove offers complete instructions for harvesting and preparing more than 50 plants for basketmaking, along with 14 different projects that teach the nine essential basketry techniques, including cordage, coiling, twining, wickerwork, and more. An illustrated harvest calendar explains when each plant is ready for harvesting, and photos of every step in the process, from harvesting to weaving, demonstrate the techniques.

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Introduction: What Are Wild Baskets?

Part One: Gathering and Preparing Plants for Wild Baskets
     Chapter 1: Tools and Materials
     Chapter 2: Plant Identification
     Chapter 3: Leaves, Grasses, and Soft Stems
     Chapter 4: Vines
     Chapter 5: Woody Stems
     Chapter 6: Wild Fibers
     Chapter 7: Bark

Part Two: Making Wild Baskets
     Chapter 8: Cordage and Multistrand Braiding
     Chapter 9: Coiled Basketry
          Coiled Bowl
     Chapter 10: Looped Basketry
          Looped Cordage Pouch
     Chapter 11: Twined Basketry
          Twined Treasure Basket
          Wild Fibers Twined Bag
     Chapter 12: Woven Basketry
          Woven Berry Basket
     Chapter 13: Diagonal-Plaited Basketry
          Diagonal-Plaited Cattail Basket
          Birch Bark Tool Sheath
     Chapter 14: Folded Bark Basketry
          Bark Necklace Pouch
          White Pine Bark Catch-All
     Chapter 15: Ribbed Basketry
          Two-Hoop Harvest Basket
          Tension Tray
     Chapter 16: Random-Weave Basketry
          Grapevine Market Basket
          Random-Weave Bowl
     Chapter 17: Wickerwork Basketry
          Wild Wickerwork Basket

Resources and Bibliography
Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
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