Willow bark baskets

As you've seen from a previous post I stripped some willow to use the bark and the wood.

The bark was too nice to take down into cordage so I thought I'd make a couple of small berry collecting baskets from it.

So bark was stripped all in one piece

An elipse scored in the bark to allow it to bend

Started making cordage from lime bark to tie it all together

But realised I didn't have enough so had to resort to shop bought jute instead

All tied together

And ready for berry picking season.