For the past 45 years, Polly Adams Sutton has been making baskets at her home studio, in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. She collects scraps of bark from western red cedars growing along the estuaries surrounding the Puget Sound, which are then soaked and dried, cut into thin strips, and split by hand into even thinner layers. Finally, they’re woven onto a base made of twill and wire.
Technically, one could use them for laundry, but given that some of Sutton’s baskets have been acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, they probably belong on a well-lit shelf instead.
