Video: How Dan Friday Makes His Mosaic Glass Baskets

Thanks so much @hot_diggity_d and the @museumofglass !!! This a fern basket made in glass, the fern pattern is similar to the Salmon gill pattern, also a Coast Salish design, thank you @burkemuseum for allowing me to research these beautiful artifacts ! @taylorames2please @gmanonfire #billholmcenter #coastsalish #lummi #nativeamerican #nativeart #art #reserch #auntfran #franjames #inspirednatives #bestofglass

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Dan Friday (Lummi) and videographer Derek Klein have put together this video that shows the steps to making one of his luminous glass baskets. It’s a mixture of mosaic, hot-sculpting, and blowing the glass.