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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Mews Staff Writer Jeanne Drevas, potter, is now Jeanne Drevas. basket maker and potter. Notice which ranks first.
The Sperryville craftswoman. long recognized throughout the area as a master at the potters wheel, has added basket weaving to her repertoire of talents. Already she's a success.
Jeanne exhibited her baskets recently at Baltimore's Winter Mart, the most prestigious craft show in the northeastern states. She was one of only a couple hundred craftspersons to receive a much-sought-after invitation to the Mart, an honor she missed as a potter. “1 could never get in with my pots. It’s that ritzy,” she explained.
But she didn't take up baskets just to master a ritzy craft and exhibit in the invitation-only show.
“I love the simplicity of basket weaving. I feel really good, really creative and I haven't felt that way in a long time.” Jeanne said in a recent interview. "I needed to simplify my life—that's what baskets are doing.”
Jeanne plans to continue throwing her pots but pottery will take a back seat to her new craft. “It takes a long, long time to finish a basket. There's no fast way to do it but that’s okay. I don't want baskets to become as much of an assembly line production as my pots have been.” she said.
If her baskets ever come off an assembly line, it will have to be an awfully slow one. It takes about seven hours just to weave a small basket and weaving’s only part of the work.
Jeanne follows the traditional, almost primitive methods of making baskets. It’s an art form with a finished product that’s a sculpture done in reeds.
Starting With Honeysuckle
A basket begins with a vine frame that determines the
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