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

With over 73,000 tree species existing in the world ... basswood is an incredibly soft and light species. Moreover, basswood inner bark can be used to create cordage (rope) which is helpful ...

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 ...

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 ...