Coiled basket weaving begins by gathering beargrass_image #1

Coiled basket weaving begins by gathering the natural fibers needed to make the basket. In this case, beargrass is being harvested. Warren Ahil cuts beargrass, which will be used as the inner foundation, the warp, of the baskets. The edges of the grass are razor sharp so gloves need to be worn. The slides in this collection were filmed on Kodachrome 64 film. In 2003 the slides were scanned on a Minolta Dimage Multiscan Pro at 48 bit color. Each TIFF scan was 11.68 inches by 7.88 inches with a resolution of 300 ppi. The file size was approx. 47.4 MB. In Nov 2006, the original TIFF scans were cropped, color corrected, resized to 6.08 inches by 8.89 inches with a resolution of 72 ppi and converted to JPEGs using ACDSee, v8.0.