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dpack

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 22 12:34 pm Post subject: strange basketry questions
could somebody make basketry boxer shorts with details? could they be made person size? oh dear, i had a fine art thought

gz

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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 22 3:38 pm Post subject:
Ask Sally?

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 22 10:35 am Post subject:
Sounds prickly!

Shane

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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 22 11:51 am Post subject:
dpack's a real man - I'm sure he'll be fine

Slim

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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 22 3:08 pm Post subject:
You haven't even heard the species he's requesting! Raspberry cane briefs!

dpack

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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 22 4:27 pm Post subject:
i was not planning on wearing them

NorthernMonkeyGirl

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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 22 10:03 am Post subject:
Wouldn't recommend wineberry..! I bet a thin enough branch (whip, twig..) would give fine enough detail, you're almost starting with a figure 8 at the bottom for legs then becoming rounder towards the top?

dpack

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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 22 10:36 am Post subject:
thanks, thin matters to all but a novice, i know nowt of these skills at this scale a bender or geodesic bender is about my level of knitting sticks i guess flexible when worked matters? ppppp has anyone bought "twigs" in bundles for what i spose is a fancy fishing creel sort of size thing? what twigs might work?

Mistress Rose

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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 22 7:18 am Post subject:

You can actually make flexible ones with bark. Western red cedar, lime bast are both used to make flexible items. I have seen a pair of shoes made of cedar bark, and lime is used for chair seats.

If you want something more rigid, willow as in basket weaving type is probably the easiest. I use split hazel for basket making and bramble pushed through a diz to remove the thorns then split is good too. Cane as in chair seats is another option that is easy to buy.

I can't think why you want a pair of basketry boxer shorts though.

dpack

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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 22 9:42 am Post subject:

number 2 in the lamp series

one is captive bolt gun and skull

two is pants on fire wicker man boxer shorts

i probably need a few more, but i am gathering materials for those two as a start
when i do a "theme" it can be quite rapid between all the bits and sketches are gathered and "what am i looking at? and why?"

zoo was "different"
i can, so i probably should

in the "studio of"/"school of" etc, i do not have an issue with getting somebody else to do the manufacturing, i do images i do not make cameras

wicker man boxer shorts are a skill set of basket making which i do not have, the concept and contents are well within my comfort zone

the last one i did at that scale with look and activity was fun, the parts are still in the hedge which is part of the piece
a PIR controlled dreadlock the size and shape of a cobra hissing and moving realistically on an electric carving knife motor mounted in and on a 3 eyed demonic cherry stump was fun.

these ones will not be 240 volts, much safer.

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