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basket illusion

  1. Greek Key Basket Illusion Platter

    Greek Key Basket Illusion Platter

    Western maple, 10" in diameter
  2. Bear Basket Illusion Plate

    Bear Basket Illusion Plate

    A western maple basket illusion plate coming out of a collaboration between my wife's design and my turning.
  3. Celebrate the Wood

    Celebrate the Wood

    A mesquite vase inspired by Native American pottery. Basket illusion embellishments under the rim and up from the base. The rim and base are both inked black. The Mesquite has nice color and a sapwood feature in the open wood. 6" x 6". Finished with original Waterlox.
  4. Vase for SWAT Raffle

    Vase for SWAT Raffle

    A southwestern shape vase made from Texas Mesquite. Faux basket weave features using ink and acrylic paint. 11" tall and 10" diameter. Embellishments were sealed with acrylic spray and the open wood was finished with Tung oil finish. This was a donation to SWAT for their 2023 raffle. Celebrate...
  5. Chock Full of Nuggets

    Chock Full of Nuggets

    A Mesquite vase with a southwestern shape. There is one band of faux basket weave which includes turquoise nuggets and three other dyed bands with nuggets. The rim and base are also dyed using archival black ink. I call the turquoise pieces nuggets for lack of another term. They are polished...
  6. Basket Illusion vase with Finial

    Basket Illusion vase with Finial

    Basket Illusion vase w/finial, approx 14" tall x 6.5" dia. Used segmented hard maple for body.
  7. Basket Illusion vase

    Basket Illusion vase

    Segmented hard maple basket illusion vase, approx 9"x9"
  8. Basket Illusion

    Basket Illusion

    Inspiration from the Native American Indian Apache - Rosette - 23 cm diameter, 5 mm thickness
  9. Basket Illusion

    Basket Illusion

    Inspiration from the Native American Indian Pima - 6 petals squash blossom
  10. Basket Illusion

    Basket Illusion

    Inspiration from the Native American Indian Pima - 6 petals squash blossom - 23 cm diameter, 5 mm thickness
  11. Wedding Basket

    Wedding Basket

    Approx 12" tall x 9" diameter. It is designed based on a traditional African Wedding Basket, using segmented hard maple wood and the 'Basket Illusion' pyrography/painting technique. Made as a gift, the pattern is created from a piece of clothing that the groom will be wearing.
  12. My Second Basket Illusion - Back Side

    My Second Basket Illusion - Back Side

    This is the back view.
  13. My Second Basket Illusion

    My Second Basket Illusion

    Motivated by some of the excellent work posted here, I decided to venture into the world of Basket Weave Illusions. My first piece was a small plate, just to test the waters. This one is 12 in diameter and about 1 1/2 inches deep. The wood is white birch.
  14. Jim Marx

    Basket Illusion software

    This may be old news to some but being brand new to 'Basket Illusion', I spent a fair amount of time on videos, groups, etc. learning the ropes. Once I sat down to design on the paper polar charts/graphs that most were using, I thought there had to be a better way. So, I thought I'd share. If...
  15. Louisa Keyser: The "Unfinished Basket"

    Louisa Keyser: The "Unfinished Basket"

    I modified my 1/8” D-Way beading tool to come close to the shape of the coil of a basket, more oval than circular and not as deep. I modified my burning tip accordingly to simulate the stitches. Obviously I do not burn between the beads.
  16. Louisa Keyser: The "Unfinished Basket"

    Louisa Keyser: The "Unfinished Basket"

    Louisa Keyser was certainly the best basket weaver of all time. On her large degikups she was doing from 30 to 34 stitches per inch. Her “Unfinished Basket” was maybe 12-13” in diameter. I didn’t have a large piece of maple so I did it in 4 pieces and it is 10 ½” in diameter and 9 ¾” high with...
  17. Border Weave

    Border Weave

    9” box elder bowl with a basket weave design burned around the perimeter.
  18. Basket Illusion

    Basket Illusion

    7” tall box elder vessel with a burned in basket weave.
  19. Navajo Rain Cross

    Navajo Rain Cross

    Navajo ceremonial basket design. The symbol is also used to represent Spider Woman, the first Navajo deity. The basket is twelve inches in diameter and the wood is maple. Pyrography and ink were used to create the basket illusion. Donated to SWAT 2019 symposium and selected as an auction item.
  20. Jean-Louis Meynier

    The make-up of Basket Illusion No. 6

    It was an epic experience with a lot of first for me and that blow up... To burn a rectangle and color one design it took me an average of 25 minutes (you do have to correct the mistakes if you have some, and with burn lines spacing less than a millimeter, on the coloring, I had some). I do have...
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