Adirondack Mountain Baskets

Adirondack Mountain Baskets 

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Tracy working on a Packbasket during Paul Smiths College
Woodsmens Team Adirondack Packbasket Class. 

 I must admit that I have an obsession with containers. Stoneware bowls, antique trunks, tomato boxes, old milk crates and baskets…Specifically baskets.  While I admire the techniques, details and styles of gallery baskets I have an abiding love for the useful ones. Baskets designed and handcrafted for a purpose. There is a certain beauty and exquisite style in the everyday practical. Like work worn hands, useful baskets...the everyday simple bread basket or heavy duty, rugged, bash around baskets that hold up to the job are an inspiration.

My first weaving instruction, around 1984, was by my talented friend and newly minted basket maker, Wendy Jensen. While fixing breakfast for Nik and I she gave me a crash course on what she had recently learned about the fundamentals of weaving and the seed was planted and took root in that moment. 

Primarily self taught, I have instructed classes in my studio, The Lake Placid Center for the Arts, The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts of Ludlow, Vermont, Paul Smiths College, The Point Resort and the Tracy Memorial Library in New London, NH. My Adirondack Packbaskets had been selected for LL Beans 100th Year Catalogue and has appeared in Adirondack Life Magazine as well as Country Living Magazine. My main focus in my baskets, kits and classes is on useful baskets . I have been fortunate over the years to have my husband and sons assist me in some of the larger classes.

The gallery below represents some of the classes and baskets woven over the years.  I do not take special orders. Baskets are for sale as they are made. 

PRICING

          KITS: Come complete with hand carved handles, rims, hand riveted straps, and full illustrated directions as applicable per basket.

                     $25.00     Cori, 5 1/2" Adirondack Packbasket

                $60.00     Jenkins 13" Adirondack Packbasket
                $85.00     Osgood 19" Adirondack Packbasket
          
          BASKETS HANDWOVEN BY TRACY:

                  $95.00     Jenkins 13" Adirondack Packbasket

                 $195.00    Osgood 19" Adirondack Packbasket (natural or stained)

                 $250.00   Multicolored 19" Adirondack Packbasket with varnish.

                 $85.00     Blueberry Harvest Basket 1 1/2 quarts

          ILLUSTRATED DIRECTIONS:

                 $2.50      Cori, 5 1/2" Adirondack Packbasket

                 $3.50     Jenkins 13" Adirondack Packbasket
                 $3.50     Osgood 19" Adirondack Packbasket

2015 Gallery...Coming

Gallery of Tracy's Classes and Baskets up to 2014

Tracy's Baskets hang at the bookstore.

 "Osgood" Adirondack Packbasket selected for LL Bean 100th Year Catalogue

Alternative version of an Adirondack Packbasket.

Tracy putting the touches on a Packbasket. Original photo by Phil Gallos

Tracy with a drawknife on the shavehorse, tools to carve handles and rims.
Nancy Battaglia took this original photo for the Paul Smiths College magazine "the Sequel".

8.5" McColloms Adirondack Packbaskets with carved rims and handles.
Hand riveted straps.

Weeklong "Useful Baskets" Class at Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts in Ludlow Vermont.

Double walled tote basket donated and
auctioned for the Saranac Lake High School
Spanish Club Trip.

Cori with the "Cori Packbasket", a 5 1/2" 
Adirondack Packbasket kit designed for introduction
 to weaving. He wove it in 1993.

Cori with a 13" "Jenkins Adirondack Packbasket".

Paul Smiths College Woodsmen's team members weave pack baskets in the PSC Forestry Cabin...

Their completed packs.