The Cherokee (still, I think) make baskets out of oak; woven baskets, so you can weave if you have thin enough strips. Oak works because you can split certain species of oak easily—white oak, I think.
I know that before burlap sheets were used, flue-cured tobacco was tied in small bundles and displayed for sale on flat wooden baskets that were sorta woven and almost 3 foot square —so up until 1960 or 1970. The tobacco museum in Kenly, NC might have more information. You might see some of those baskets on the wall of the Cracker Barrel restaurants.
I don’t know what the Woodwright Shop guy would do with this or how he would do it.
Ah, if only he’d hired a cute chick as presenter. It would have been bacon, lattice, and tomato.
He lost me at the c&c machine. Then again when he cut the pieces apart. Aintnobodygottimfadat.
The Cherokee (still, I think) make baskets out of oak; woven baskets, so you can weave if you have thin enough strips. Oak works because you can split certain species of oak easily—white oak, I think.
I know that before burlap sheets were used, flue-cured tobacco was tied in small bundles and displayed for sale on flat wooden baskets that were sorta woven and almost 3 foot square —so up until 1960 or 1970. The tobacco museum in Kenly, NC might have more information. You might see some of those baskets on the wall of the Cracker Barrel restaurants.
I don’t know what the Woodwright Shop guy would do with this or how he would do it.