Was Gifted a HUGH load of fresh wild Sea Grass ( Eel Grass) Sea Weed. Beautiful long strong stuff. Tomorrow will begin the cleaning process .. anyone who would like some of this please let me know and we can work out a way to send you some. Ill post a pic tomorrow. Thank You Doug Barrett you ROCK !!! This Sea Weed is used for making patterns on twined baskets. This grass drys jet black but can go white if bleached in the Sun. Just for some info: Common Eel-grass is a perennial with long, flexible ribbon-like leaves and fleshy rhizomes. It has flat bright-green leaves that are more than 32 mm wide. It occurs in marine bays in mud or sand in the intertidal zone and is common along the British Columbia coast. After a storm, Eel-grass is often seen washed up on the beaches. The Nuu-chah-nulth used the leaves to imbricate baskets and hats. After bleaching the leaves in the sun to a bright white, they would use them as is or dye them any colour they required for a basket pattern. The Kwakwakawakw wove belts and baskets from Common Eel-grass, but these would have not been very strong.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:39:02 +0000
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