The outer stakes were then tied to the inner stakes with "Indian string" (pieces of the inner bark of the basswood tree; see Fig. 1). Because the bottom bark was not sufficiently wide to reach ...

It opened up like a flower,” said Ray Bier, owner of Bier Art Gallery and Pottery Studio, who has been stewarding the ...

In maturity, the basswood develops a pyramidal shape and can grow to 80 feet high and 50 feet wide. The heart-shaped leaves of this tree form a ... Its fibrous bark has also been used to make ...