How to weave an obelisk with Dave Jackson The Stick Smith
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- Dave Jackson a.k.a. The Stick Smith teaches how to weave a willow obelisk, for climbing plants; be they peas, sweet peas, runner beans, jasmine...
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I don’t know why I’ve just spent the last 25 minutes watching someone weaving an oblique, do I need one no... do I want one no... it’s his technique on how to make an oblique. He made it look so easy, I was totally zoned out listening to his calming voice that I’m coming around to think I should make one too. Thank you for sharing.
Decades before internet i attempted to make one..what a mess...now i know some od the reasons it was such a mess...i also tried to make a small fence aroundnthe garden bed....using what plants were around...another mess...we have no willow nor willow type wood so u can imagine the mess...its to hard for my hands now that im sooo old...but its really good to see someone actually do it.
About the third one i attempted it held together...lol..
Just fantastic I must say
Obelisk
Its most important that this & other ancient skills are passed on, to others without the knowledge who are still keen to learn. Whilst watching this craftsman weave, it made me think of lobster pots. Thanks for video upload which was interesting to watch.
I keep thinking spider house
So thats how its Done! 🤔🙂👍🦸♀️ I've been itching to make my own bean tower since the ready made ones are over $175-$225 at my local garden shop made in Asia... I believe even if I purchased the canes at a weavers supply shop I could still save a few dollars and have a lovely afternoon of it. I don't have a stream on my city lot for soaking reeds and canes but making a water tight cylinder of a 3-4 inch PVC drain pipe purchased at the DIY/hardware store with an end cap glued on to one end is a simple hack. Fill with canes and water, cap the open end with an UN- glued end cap and stand UPRIGHT in the corner of the garage for a week to soak. (Stand in any place where it wont tip over and leak since the top cap isn't to be glued down watertight, only the bottom cap!) Simple reusable mess free soaking cylinder.
Hello from Slovakia ✋🇸🇰
Amazing skilfull hands. And very purely work. This stickwork in Slovakia is traditions too -basketry is beautiful ✋
This video was simply fascinating to watch. You are a great teacher with easy to understand instructions. I would love to try and make one.
Dave should definitely do more videos, absolutely brilliant instruction here!
@@multicolouredhuman , I agree. I hope he reads this!
Agreed, I would keep watching him make anything to be quite honest!!! He's very patient, obviously loves his craft, and a great teacher!! I think I might try a very modest version with my willo branches! I actually always thought they were such pests around my pond, you cut them away and the next year they're 6 feet tall again...now I see where I was wrong!!! I'm actually lucky and have an abundance to practice with, as I will no doubt break quite a few! Lol!!! Great video, very inspiring!!! Thank you!
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I stumbled upon this video and I am inspired. Thank you for this tutorial. They are beautiful structures.
Thanks for a great little video today and really I learned a lot about waving from you hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy until the next video
LOVE this. Beautiful craftsmanship and description. Thank you!
Wow! Dave, your skill & pride in being a master weaver is very obvious & much appreciated. What a beautiful tribute to all the previous generations, who relied on these baskets & who passed on these skills & craft. This was very enjoyable to watch. Anything that just uses nature’s gifts & a craftsmen’s skill & knowledge is beautiful to watch!!👏🏼👏🏼
I’m so impressed by your work here. It’s beautiful, functional, and you’ve reused something that most people would just toss away. Make more of these videos, I can’t stop watching! 💕
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These aren't reused byproduct... He bought these willow whips that were grown out and meticulously sorted for exactly this purpose, they would definitely not have been thrown away...
100% new purchased premium materials.
Still super cool! Still sustainable, still important! But yeah I'm honestly kind of confused why you think that's what's going on because he mentions purchasing them repeatedly through the whole video
Wonderful to see this craft. I love your calm way of teaching.
This is rrally a wondeul way to make a natural way to support crops in a garden. Thank you for sharing.
Reading the comments I see i was far from the only person mesmerized by this video. It was wonderful. Your voice is soothing, your instruction clear and easy to understand. I don't know how I came upon your video while taking a break after scrubbing the bathroom floor but I watched the whole relaxing creation. I will now have to find willow. Thank you
Love seeing the stacks of prepared sticks; turns me on craft wise, jazzed beyond. my crafty senses are tingling thanks…. for such good ideas generously giving it to us 👏🏻💋
I was looking for a method of making a straight stick obelisk that looked a little unique. This didn't show me that, but I'll never ignore the location of a willow tree again. What a great way to make a bunch of unique garden goodies. Thanks for taking the time to record it.
You made it look easy but as a skilled craftsman myself I know it took much practice to develop your skillful technique! Especially the ability to gracefully curve the willow without bending and weakening!
I’ve saved to share with my daughters.
Thank you!
Such a feeling of timelessness watching you weave. Beautiful.
Beautiful!!!
And what a nice boat!
Excellent instructions. Thanks for sharing your craft.
Отличная штуковина получается! Дэйву привет из заснеженной Вологды.
Beautiful. Would love nothing more than sitting and weaving all day. Cant wait to try one for my garden.
Beautiful! I hope this man has a channel of his own! Thank you for sharing this❤️
Magnifique ! Thx a lot. I made this tomorow.
Hello from France 😉👋
I totally agree with a previous post - that we need to preserve or hand down these techniques.
I live in US, and as soon as I saw this video, I looked for something similar (so I didn’t have to do it myself), and was very disappointed that I couldn’t find something similar. Very cheap single strand spiral, some even plastic replicas, but none with the detail seen here. Will definitely be searching further, because these are beautiful ❤❤❤
Forsythia as weavers maybe? Someone else mentioned grapevine.
Thanks for sharing.. I raise willows for weaving.. I want to learn this one to add to my hobbies... "Love it"
Hello from Washington State USA! Love this video. Thanks for sharing.
What a great idea , now I know what to do with the bamboo that I wish I never planted
Everything can be useful
One can always tell an excellent teacher by how easy they make things to understand, and how well they instill the confidence in a student that they are capable of the task, Dave has definitely mastered both. I know this is a lot harder than you make it looks Dave; but, I truly believe that after your instruction, I could actually do this. Now finding Willow Reeds in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains might pose a challenge...lol, but I'll see if I can give this a try...Fabulous! Thank You.
J'agree🇨🇦❤️🦆
Best info post of the day..Thank You from Alabama in the U.S
This tutorial was delightful....I was smiling the whole time you were teaching us. I thankyou for your generosity of spirit for this lost art....I don't care how many times I have to watch this, I will certainly be attempting to make these for my gardens. Blessings to you*
WOW VERY VERY NICE...LOVE THEM !
They are beautiful and you are truly an artist. ❤️
That was awesome. Thanks for sharing your skill and knowledge!
Those are amazing! Going to find myself an old tire now! I have got to try this!!!!
I learned some great tips. If I should ever find myself by a river, with access to Willow branches, I will give it a shot ♥
You are a movie star!!! Thanks for sharing your amazing talent! God bless.....Bruno from Samoa...
I live in Florida and don't have willow, but I have bamboo and I suspect it would weave about the same. I'm trying to put in a vegetable garden and I think I'm going to give this a try, it looks so much nicer than a modern trellis.
Thank you for sharing your techniques of making an obelisk! I can't wait to make some this spring!
3:40 That's the sound of a bee on the mic! I've recorded bee hives so I know the sound. Always makes me smile 🐝
THank you for sharing your skill and knowledge... what a wonderful tribute to your craftsmanship! Keep up the great work.... wish I were closer... I’d be a loyal customer! From Virginia, USA
Thank you for this video and the weaving lesson! I know this is a long time after your initial posting, but I really appreciate the information shared here. I wish I knew how to do this many years ago when I had a beautiful white willow come down from the strong winds of a hurricane. I spend a week or so dismantling her and putting her limbs on the front side of my sidewalk. She was so pretty and I was sad she fell. Some ladies came by and asked for some of her limbs to put into dream catchers and some other things, but I don't recall what it was. My big golden retriever loved chewing the bark as it was like a pain reliever for him. I'll be using your ideas to weave tall obelisks for some wild muscadine vines.
Thank you again for sharing. 😊💖🙏
Wow, I love them
I have so many saplings and I have pole bean seeds the reason I'm here, to put this all together for next year's garden
Really good but only criticism is a close up shot of the hands working the reeds would be very helpful. 👍
I love them. So pretty and wonderful.
Just absolutely Facinating !! I really enjoyed this.
no willow where i live but there are lots of grapevines and dogwood. i am going to give it go. thanks dave!
Sweet gums might work too for the uprights...need to walk in the woods and see what I can find
Absolutely fantastic
Классно! Очень красивые и органически вписываются в природу! Браво!
This is amazing. A lot more complex than I was wanting to make for my garden. These are beautiful. Thank you for sharing
Very pretty, will try this. My plant supports are not-so-nice heavy duty upside-down tomato cages with colored glass bud vases or bottles set on top as decorative finials. Thrift stores are great places to find small vases for a buck or two. They look especially nice when the sun shines through them.
ooo would love to see them! trying to picture that in my mind!
Brilliant! Love it! Thankyou for sharing this marvellous skill!
Wonderful demonstration! Thank you very much! ~~Sharon
WOW!!! We have a lot of willow around. This seems to be something I can tackle... Thank You so Much!!
fantastic instructions, you make me feel like I could l do this too. Thank you for the obelisk class!
Super urađeno. Lepo, korisno, praktično za organske vrtove i cvetnjake.
I really like your system. Beautiful. And all natural. I also see furniture in the background which interests me. Thanks for being here.
Very instructive! Thank you! I was just planning to weave a garden obelisk, and now there are lots of mistakes I'll avoid making.
Really lovely to watch your skills. Thank you.
Мастер..золотые руки...у нас в Башкирии тоже есть мастера которые плетут из ивы..
As to curving the wands, Monty dotn when learning to do Japanese flower arrangements wa sbeing taught to gently curve the brances of the cherry blossom he was arranging. I have found the idea useful when transplanting things. He was barely listening at all to his teacher so the class finished abruptly, which amused me. He didn not seem to understand the slow, mindfulness of oriental disciplines.
That's so neat!
God bless you and thank you for sharing your beautiful talent 👏🏽I am from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Very clever. This is the first time that I've seen these made. Thank you for sharing!
Very nice 👌 love your idea.
Amazing!
Fantastically fun to watch and easy to understand.
Just so you know... a wigwam is actually a Native American domed or cone-shaped house that was historically used in the eastern half of North America before the era of colonization.
Thank you your clear instruction. Great to see the wonderful craftmanship
Looks fantastic ........ think I'll just buy one from you 🙃😁
Great thanks!!!! Beautiful work👏👏👏👏
Bello 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hi nice content ! Good luck from Russia )))))
I love it 🥰 thank you for teaching us. Will try to soak some willow sticks in my tub 😊
Thank you for sharing this tradition with all of us!! It was fascinating to watch!!
Blessings!!
Great video, Very well explained.
So elegant and graceful!
oh I love sticks. Those are some dandy ones. You said you buy them graded. Where do you buy them? It would be equally fun to gather them. I make small stick furniture for little people I also make. It is just fun to go shopping by the river. The Thames is a lovely river. Your boat looks really fun. The willow chair in the back is really fine. Very large basket for very large people lol a chair? a hanging chair? wow, you sure have one lucky wife. Wish my partner would get keen on sticks. He loves the little chairs, maybe one day he will make a stick thing. fun fun fun
thank you for sharing and yes, I will make some small ones for the little people
Brilliant video Dave, I remember watching you at the shows, and bodger's ball! I'll be attempting a willow obelisk next week!
Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher.
Thank you. Very helpful
Beautiful work congrats. Thanks for sharing. God bless you
Super done.. I am giving a course like this very soon ... Thankyou for help...
Love sticks always collecting..great for any occasion..cleaning up spider webs stakes for tomatoes and now these sculptures...thank you for this video.🌳🐞🌲
Super clear explanation and very clear visuals, thank you
Thanks for sharing your beautiful work!
Really interesting, thanks.
Those are amazing skillsets, Dave. Very beautiful work. I am inspired to work on some bamboos (we have a lot f them over here!) and although not as a malleable as willow, I hope to use other materials to weave through them and create my rendition. Thanks again for this top notch tutorial. Great job!
God bless you and thank you for sharing your beautiful talent ...
I must make some of these. I have coppiced hickory I can use for the sails, and I even have a tire, but I'm going to have to think about what I can use for the weavers; I don't have any willow and from what I've seen, basket-making materials are expensive to buy. Surely with all the woods I have around here, I can find something that will do.
I'm going to use dog wood
In the eastern USA, harvest forsythia vines for use in weaving projects of many sizes and strengths.
Thank you, such a thing of beauty.
Cool video! Thanks! Will try this in my garden some day!
A really great instructional video! Thank you very much. I loved learning this
Excellent craftmanship! I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video!
What an excellent tutorial! Inspires me to make some!
Nice ,,, greetings from Finland
beautiful artwork, thanks for sharing the techniques. Now to try and attempt to do this with the vines in my yard 💚
Great tutorial 👍 loved watching 😊
Such a lovely skill/ gift.
I’m excited for height interest in the garden this year. This will do it. And I have 10 tires! Yes I’m excited!