The mandate of the Nova Scotia Basketry Guild is: to share information about basketry, to promote an awareness of basketry to the community-at-large, to promote the preservation of traditional Nova Scotia basketry techniques to promote the development of contemporary basketry techniques Home Regional Basket Info Resources Links Current Events Past Events Photo Gallery Contact Us INTERESTING BASKETRY LINKS Canadian Conservation Institute - basket care and conservation  Traditional Maritime Basket Making - from a 2001 Saltscapes article (*new) Acadian Basket Making at Fortress Louisbourg - video and text (*new) Clara Clayton Gough - a selection of links highlighting Clara Pam (Clayton) Wall - an on-line shop to purchase her baskets  Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design Burgess Baskets - Nova Scotia's wooden box mill in Newport Station, Hants Co. Webster's wooden berry boxes - Nova Scotia's oldest mill in Cambridge Station, Annapolis County. Poplar Lamps from the wasted ends of sheets of veneer that are lathed from poplar logs for use in one or both of the above basket factories  Heather's Baskets - local basket maker Dawn MacNutt - artist and basket maker Shari MacLeod - Cape Breton basketmaker   Glooscap Heritage Centre - Mi'kmaq traditional crafts exhibition, Truro NS Darren Porter's fishing weir - Traditional Weir Making in Nova Scotia Wabanaki Material History - Gaby Pelletier Consulting Island Traditions Store - Basket Weavers of PEI, classes, supplies, finished baskets  Celebration in the Wood Workers Guide - an article on the N.S. Basketry Guild's  "Basket Day 2008" - making baskets from wood Basket Making in Newfoundland and Labrador - the Intangible Cultural Heritage website (*new) The Heart of Canadian Art - artists by province across Canada Basketry Express - Canada's only basketry magazine was last published in 2000 and is now available through some used book outlets. Southwestern Ontario Basketry Guild Wendy Durfey - Kitchener Ontario basketmaker Free Spirit Gallery - Northern Canadian First Nations baskets Joan Carrigan - a basket maker from Salt Spring Island, B.C. Alastair Heseltine - Sculpture Design and Basketry on Hornby Island, B.C. First Nations Basketry - Langley Centennial Museum - Conservation of basketry Pacific Basketry Supplies -190 Broadwell Road, Salt Spring Island, B.C. V8K 1H3. Catalogue available: Tel: 250-538-0033. Natural Dyes and Yarns - Gabriel Dinim in Whaletown BC Pat Courtney Gold - Warmsprings, Washington USA - native basketry artist  Northwest Basket Weavers - Vi Phillips Guild  - Seattle, Washington USA North Shore Basketry Guild - (NSBG) Duluth Minnesota USA Tidewater Basketry Guild - Norfolk Virginia USA  North Carolina Basketmakers' Association - North Carolina USA  John C. Campbell Folk School - Brasstown, North Carolina  Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance - Maine USA, good links and events Native American Technology and Art  - traditional uses of natural materials  Hudson Museum - University of Maine anthropology museum with Maine Native American baskets -- check out the Exhibitions which are often basketry related. English Basketry Willows - Bonnie Gale, 412 Country Road #31, Norwich, New York 13815-3149 or 607-336-9049 phone and fax has willow/rush materials, tools and books. Alaska Native Arts - a gallery of native works including baskets from whale balene Coiling DVD - by Nadine Spier. An excerpt from the DVD can be viewed on http://www.parabolee.com/samples/nadine_sample.htm Out to Learn Willow - classes, and materials in England and Wales  Scottish Basket Makers Circle - Scotlands basket makers Susi Vaughan - imaginative and colourful work check out the scarecrows  Werner Turtschi - Swiss basket maker, instructor Telephone Wire Baskets - lovely examples of small baskets Fun with Rolled Paper -  a paper reed box, a basket from newspaper, and other projects using recycled matrials More Danish Heart  - patterns in Danish Niche Awards - The NICHE Awards program began in 1989 to celebrate excellence and innovation in American and Canadian fine craft. Artists are recognized in professional and student divisions. Home Regional Basket Info Resources Links Current Events Past Events Photo Gallery Contact Us