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Tracy working on a Packbasket during Paul Smiths College Woodsmens Team Adirondack Packbasket Class. |
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:
$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
$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". |
Their completed packs. |
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