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Woven Cattail Totes

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Sturdy and visually beautiful basket totes woven with a criss-cross weave using all Cattail(Typha spp.)

Some of the uses:

As a tote for wine or custom brews, the large one can hold two wine sized bottles and the medium size two pint sized bottles.

As a tote for an afternoon coffee or tea at the café, big enough for your sunglasses, wallet and your phone with a little extra room for chapstick, notebook and other small necessities.

They make a thoughtful gift for cherished occasions such as a weddings or housewarmings. They are functionally and aesthetically beautiful.

Size(inches): Medium 10” x 9” x 2 1/2”

Large: 10” x 10 1/2” x 3”

*Cattail(Typha spp.) is a wetland and/or ditch plant that helps filter the waters and nourish the soil providing habitat and food for wildlife. Cattail is an important source of food, shelter and utilitarian items for many of the First Peoples. These cattails were sustainably harvested from my friend’s pond to allow for other pond plants to flourish.

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Sturdy and visually beautiful basket totes woven with a criss-cross weave using all Cattail(Typha spp.)

Some of the uses:

As a tote for wine or custom brews, the large one can hold two wine sized bottles and the medium size two pint sized bottles.

As a tote for an afternoon coffee or tea at the café, big enough for your sunglasses, wallet and your phone with a little extra room for chapstick, notebook and other small necessities.

They make a thoughtful gift for cherished occasions such as a weddings or housewarmings. They are functionally and aesthetically beautiful.

Size(inches): Medium 10” x 9” x 2 1/2”

Large: 10” x 10 1/2” x 3”

*Cattail(Typha spp.) is a wetland and/or ditch plant that helps filter the waters and nourish the soil providing habitat and food for wildlife. Cattail is an important source of food, shelter and utilitarian items for many of the First Peoples. These cattails were sustainably harvested from my friend’s pond to allow for other pond plants to flourish.

Sturdy and visually beautiful basket totes woven with a criss-cross weave using all Cattail(Typha spp.)

Some of the uses:

As a tote for wine or custom brews, the large one can hold two wine sized bottles and the medium size two pint sized bottles.

As a tote for an afternoon coffee or tea at the café, big enough for your sunglasses, wallet and your phone with a little extra room for chapstick, notebook and other small necessities.

They make a thoughtful gift for cherished occasions such as a weddings or housewarmings. They are functionally and aesthetically beautiful.

Size(inches): Medium 10” x 9” x 2 1/2”

Large: 10” x 10 1/2” x 3”

*Cattail(Typha spp.) is a wetland and/or ditch plant that helps filter the waters and nourish the soil providing habitat and food for wildlife. Cattail is an important source of food, shelter and utilitarian items for many of the First Peoples. These cattails were sustainably harvested from my friend’s pond to allow for other pond plants to flourish.

Colors will vary on baskets due to the natural materials that oxidizes and darkens with time. To preserve the color and fibers longer keep out of direct sunlight and away from moisture.

Plants that I use to weave, make herbals and teach with come from tending my own wild garden, where I have planted and encouraged edible, utilitarian and medicinal plants. Removing, thinning and coppicing weedy plants or trees helps increase diversity and encourages growth of native species. One of the principles I follow as a small business owner and crafter, is to have my decisions and craft guided by having a small footprint, striving for no waste and working only with natural materials.

Inspiration for the baskets and woven art comes from quiet observation of the natural world around me and the inherent beauty, strength and flexibility of each plant material. Weaving vessels from plants that grow in my local environment creates a more intimate bond with my surroundings and deeper connection to ancestors who lived closely with the Earth.

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“Plants are integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit. To recreate a home, the plants must also return.”

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER

Photography © Nicole Larson