White Oak Baskets
White Oak Basket Weaving Video
Everything About Weaving White Oak Baskets
by Johnnie Jordan
White oak basket weaving is one of America's favorite folk arts. Johnnie has been weaving baskets for over sixty years. Now this exciting video shows you how to work the magic of weaving white oak baskets. The baskets that you create will give you the satisfaction of being a master of a folk craft that is quickly disappearing from our land. Pulling basket strips, dying the basket strips,weaving deferent designs, basket weaving tools, white oak tree selection, basket handle carving, and special basket weaving tips are all covered in this great instructional video.
Johnnie Jordan, one of America's best known folk artist
shares the
secrets gathered from a lifetime of weaving white oak
baskets.
From his appearance with Charles Carolt on CBS radio
to festivals
large and small throughout the South, Johnnie has generously
shared the secrets of the art. Now he is offering his
knowledge
through this exciting video tape.
Johnnie walks you through the entire process, from selecting
the
proper white oak tree, to completing the finishing touches
of your
creation.
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TOOLS STRIPS ENTIRE KITS
Information will soon be available with each tape, and
on this
site, as to how you can obtain
the necessary tools, pre-cut white oak strips, and for
those indoor
basket weavers, entire basket weaving kits for a variety
of styles.
Send $29.95 plus $5.00 shipping and handling to:
Jordan White Oak Basket Video
324 Camellia Lane
Florien, La 71429
or
Call toll free 1 800 910 0071 for credit card and COD
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Johnnie Jordan began making white oak baskets over seventy years ago.
Growing up on a farm where white oak baskets were more than simply beautiful,
they were a necessary part of life. Baskets were used to gather various
crops on the farm. This craft, basket making, evolved over many generations
in the Jordan family. Johnnie's grandfather, Jim Jordan began teaching
Johnnie to weave white oak when Johnnie was around eight years old. Upon
his retirement some fifteen years ago, Johnnie began raising his craft
to the level of a fine art. Over the next fifteen years Johnnie sold white
oak baskets, usually as the headliner craftsman, at craft shows all over
the South. During these years he brought about many innovations that have
been copies by basket makers from coast to coast. He was the first to dye
his individual basket strips. He created many curly strip designs, He discovered
the rusty nail white oak basket dyeing method, and the partial dye method
of dying white oak. He continued to be a true pioneer of modern times in
the white oak basket making craft until his death in the spring of 1998.
His greatest joy was not creating white oak baskets, but rather showing
others how to work his craft. To the amazement of some in the craft, he
never missed an opportunity to show all of his secrets to spectators and
competitors alike. The creation of this video was his last and one of his
proudest achievements. The company he founded, Cabin Crafts, is proud to
offer this video through which the treasures of this great craftsman's
mind can be shared with all who the arts and crafts of our ancestors.
Another Great Basket Maker and Friend of Johnnie