We are so lucky that folk years ago filmed these for us and also that folk today are uploading them and making them available for free.
Alex Stewart cooper
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTb2zVpQGg4]
I love this one Elizabeth Proper “it’s just a job, ya gotta eat” “I just like working wood that’s all”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3egz1xnW_wA]
and 90n yr old tinsmith John Forshee
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfXutrIS1HY]
Robin thanks for posting these. The basketmaker is part of a tradition in New York that is also captured in Martha Wetherbee's book The Legend of the Bushwhacker Basket. These are great baskets. I never knew one of the makers was caught on film, albeit a bit of a revival at the point Elizabeth was working at them. These families in upstate New York made the best swing-handle baskets I have ever seen. Nice stuff.
Great old craft films Robin I really enjoyed them especially the cooper thanks 🙂