Honeysuckle Basket Class at Historic Rugby, Tennessee Instructor - Beth Hester |
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Honeysuckle basket class sitting outside Historic Rugby community room. Front Row L to R: Sue Smith, Robbie Ferguson. Middle Row L to R: Dorris Wallace, Pam Kessel, Wanda Graham, Rhonda Williams. Back Row L to R: Scott GIlbert, Rita Myers. | Honeysuckle vines were gathered, boiled for 2 hours and stripped of its bark. You can see the boiling pot in the background and coils of stripped honeysuckle on the ground. | Robbie Ferguson from Burksville, KY stripping some honeysuckle. |
Close-up of Pam's hands weaving an egg basket with honeysuckle vines. |
Sue decided to make an oval egg basket combining smoked flat reed with honeysuckle vines.
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This is Roslyn - one of the homes built in the 1880's at Historic Rugby, TN. If you would like to know more about this beautiful Tennessee Landmark goto: http://www.historicrugby.org |
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