Baskets 13 and 14: produce baskets

Baskets 13 and 14: Pair of wall-mounted produce baskets, made of buff willow and red osier dogwood. 

Basket 14 mounted on the wall, holding potatoes.

Front view of baskets 13 and 14, produce baskets

This project took about 12 hours total, this video shows roughly 5 hours compressed into 1 minute. I don't think I'll try doing two baskets at a time again. 

These baskets are a new shape and technique I've never tried before called "packing" that makes a slanted wall.

Side view of basket 14, produce basket

The red osier dogwood soaked for 2 days and the buff willow for about an hour. All together, that's nearly 200 rods. 

The buff bundles shown in the center of the photo below make up the weaving for the walls and base. The smaller bundle with the green twist tie is discards from my previous basket. The shorter red rods make the base frame, aka the slath. The longer red rods are the waling, a type of trim and spacer. The outer two buff bundles make the wall frames, or uprights.

I transformed more than 200 rods into woven produce containers.