Birch Bark Basket Making

www.giftoflanguageandculture.c... Steps for Making a Birch Bark Basket. This video provides all the steps needed to make a birch bark basket. Depending on the size, you can use it for picking berries or to store treats and other items.

[@NorthSurvival]

How can anyone dislike this video? Epic craftsmanship and skills.

[@trspriyadarshini2468]

Great work

[@toddlabrador3477]

:-) thank you .... wonderful to see the elders working with bark

[@loreyb8705]

Thank You for sharing with us, these baskets are simply beautiful! WoW!

[@timothylongmore7325]

Very nice. Love the birch , gods gift to the children.

[@lenhowl]

Beautiful work,well done.

[@BellePhoenixTheSubterraneanSea]

Found these in a secondhand store, brilliant.

[@David_Sewap7]

Awesome Tapwee

[@Nancytoday]

I am going to make this today! Thank you so much!

[@ellyyogini]

fabulous instructions!! THANK YOU!!

[@dandelionwhine6943]

Thank you for sharing this knowledge!

[@KenGLaP]

Very nicely done!

[@csmeja]

Lovely and clear.

[@MaineForestAndFarm]

Just found you and subscribed! Thank you so much for sharing your information! We sure appreciate it and we'll be using it on our Homestead :-)

[@davidwermuth80]

Thank you for sharing.

[@smollie007]

Than you for sharing your knowledge.

[@d25music]

That looks like fun

[@FacetsOfTruth]

Very informative. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge with us. I will make some of these now. I look forward to seeing how it turns out. I didn't know that you could use spruce root so well. We do not have many birch trees in Ohio here. We have many OAKS, Sycamore, Hickory and Pines. I wonder if other barks can be used this way, or if only birch will work? Do you happen to know of other barks that can work. Maybe if they are soaked first?

[@Nancytoday]

I had to come back and see the way you made the rim. I did the rest so far.

[@Thehippiemoose]

M'gwich, for sharing, a very well done video and explanation.!!

[@Mishomisguitar]

You're correct there.

[@feliciaaustin9243]

thank you

[@norske9228]

Thanks man!

[@RucksackNation]

Usually you do not. If it is not very pliable, try dipping it in boiling water for a few seconds until it becomes flexible again. I have been making baskets in a similar fashion and have found some are just incredibly crumbly and crack, those tend to be in the minority. Look for smooth bark without any of the gray "growth" or "bubbles" on it.

[@Renatus_Eruditus]

@FacetsOfTruth There won't be any birch left in your area if you harvest bark the way she did at the end of the video. When you cut a ring of any size around a tree's trunk, you kill the tree. The main trunk's inner bark is like an arterial vein, and fluids flow up the trunk from the roots. If you want to harvest bark, please get it from dead trees or from branches instead of main trunk. I don't know much about other barks, but that's worth looking into.

[@timothylongmore7325]

you should mind your own trees , they aren't doing ANYTHING wrong

[@svent1000]

Thats just wrong. The tree are not damage by taking off the utter barch. It grow back.

[@raktvk]

Sorry! I see you are Cree! Thank you for sharing. I have longed to do this for years!

[@kayleighhilyard]

Do you need to soak the bark first to make it pliable? If so, how long? I tried making a birch basket and the bark cracked.

[@thebluebunny1]

what would make a ideal basket for growing vegetables in a natural sticks with no chemicals just natural materials

[@sapporo81414]

is it alright to strip such a large section of bark from a birch tree like at the end of the video??

[@timothylongmore7325]

If you don't take the cambium layer too the tree will survive. You don't want that layer anyway. The tree won't look as "pretty". Stumps don't look pretty either.

[@raktvk]

Please excuse. What Nation are you from? And could you show processing the spruce root? This flummoxes me....

[@Renatus_Eruditus]

@sapporo81414 Any size excision will cease upward fluid flow beyond the point of the cut. That tree died shortly after. Please harvest from dead trees only.

[@timothylongmore7325]

wrong

[@absoluteoriginal8091]

9years later you're sti!I wrong lmao

[@shantelleadeline6053]

Splendidly to see Woodglut have new plans which helped me save some money and energy for this construction.

[@TaoSportsClub]

Don't strip from live trees!

[@svent1000]

Боян Тонков why? It dosnt hurt the three, and the utter barch grow back

[@aubreylambert6208]

this did not pass the vibe check :(