Not specifically a craft per se but i have a lot of palm trees in my garden and they seem to be so....craftable. Their meshy trunk, long and hard yet supple stems, leaves that look that could be made into baskets. But I have yet to figure out how to use them besides the stems for plant stakes.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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That sounds like a description from a novel. Beautiful.
You can absolutely craft at least the palm leaves. I was raised Catholic, we'd weave crosses, stars and headbands for Easter every year — one of the very few fun things about the Catholic church.
Raw fibres, like reeds and stems, shrink as they dry. Tight crafts go loose and you have to do them all over again. Palm leaves (depending on the type of palm) are good because they don't shrink that much and tend to stay green longer. The palm baskets I made after a wind storm held up for years.
Here's the method I used: https://christinedebeer.ca/tutorials/weaving-a-gift-box-with-a-lid-from-palm-leaves
Oh such a cool website and lovely baskets!! Thank you for it and your kind words!
I don't really know what skills I'm going to need to learn yet, but I have a deer spine and coyote skull I want to figure out how to put together to make an art piece. I've been getting super inspired by the boom in the Oddities market, and I've seen a few people who've made bone staves. Just seems like a fun project, something I've never really tried before.
Sounds awesome. Bone is a cool medium to work with, it's like every kind of fucked up wood texture in one skeleton. A bone staff is gonna look sweet.
Not sure it fits the community, but I'll start making sausages from my neighbor's wild boars. I want to weave better (prettier) rugs from the hills of scrap fabric I stored in the barn. My friend should teach me wool felting (she's a professional who makes great jumpers and shoes).