Ender100@aol.com
Date: 01/02/03-11:30:40 PM Z
Shannon,
I have a friend in Walhalla, SC that makes all sorts of stuff out of Kudzu...
here is a website with info:
http://www.clemson.edu/scbg/pages/carriage/nancy.htm
She is quite an interesting person. She is Cherokee and took the name
basket after serving her apprenticeship as a basket maker. She has soap,
jelly, baskets, paper and other things made of Kudzu. She even uses bales
of Kudzu to insulate a building.
Her daughter, Jolene, is also an excellent basket maker—especially pine
needle baskets. I have some wonderful photographs of Jolene in her great
grandmother's native costume. She had just turned sixteen and her hair was
down to her knees. A delightful young lady.
There was a rumor that Kudzu had shown up in a forrest preserve near Chicago.
People were scared to death! There they call it the Kurse of Kudzu.
Mark Nelson
In a message dated 1/2/03 9:37:40 PM, shannonstoney@earthlink.net writes:
> Sandy wrote:
> >
> > I am curious to know if there is any kudzu to photograph in areas of
> > the country outside of the southeast? Last summer while visiting some
> > friends in Montauck on Long Island we were discussing the question of
> > the erosion of the cliffs up there, and I jokingly suggested that
> > kudzu might solve the problem. But would it survive that far north?
>
> I have a book called The Book of Kudzu. It is mostly about how to cook and
> eat kudzu, but it also tells how to weave cloth with it. In it there is a
> map that shows the range of kudzu in the US. Its northernmost range is
> northern Virginia west to Arkansas. So I guess it wouldn't make it in
> Montauk.
>
> --shannon
>
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