(re-post)
A roll of corrugated cardboard showed up at a garage sale and I stuck it here until I decided what to do with it. I love the texture and the cylindrical and flat potential. I once cut a doll from it. This time I was thinking more of weaving ….
Then, as often happens, the vision took a sudden turn and the bag/basket came to mind.
This is one I made using ties as the weft on a back strap loom very loosely warped with a strong black cord. Its base is a burlap canvas and I like very much how it can be used as a basket ….
… but also serve handily as a bag.
The corrugated cardboard inspired making another bag/basket but with the look and texture of the corrugation.
While browsing back through old posts of other bag/baskets and playing with the idea of using burlap as the material and wondering how to get it into mountains and valleys …. I came across this crocheted basket.
It's not in use or on display at the moment so I had forgotten about it and experienced that pleasant re-greeting of an 'old friend'. It is particularly poignant because I haven't worked with rope or jute or tough fibre for ages now: dusty and rough on the hands and tickles my nose.
Come to think of it, working with burlap would be dusty and rough etc. Hmmm. I wonder if the cardboard could translate to a bag/basket…