I want to make a winnowing basket. But I don't know which of the many basket shapes to make. How large is appropriate? How big is too damned big? I am also currently debating what to make it out of. Right now the leading mediums are pine needles or
yellow flag iris leaves. Both are free to me. No. I have never woven a basket before.
I need to be able to use it for dry beans, amaranth, and sorghum, and rye. Hmmm. Amaranth might get stuck in a pine needle coil basket... Would I need more than one type of basket?
What say you?