Vicki Moore and her husband, Bob, settled in Silver City, New Mexico in 1979. In 1984 they relocated to the ghost town of Mogollon, New Mexico, gateway to the beautiful Gila National Forest, where she and her husband have raised and home-schooled their three children. Vicki has been refining her art of pine needle basketry since 1976, when her sister-in-law, who had just learned the art from an elderly Native American neighbor, taught her to coil. The pine needles are collected locally …
Vicki Moore and her husband, Bob, settled in Silver City, New Mexico in 1979. In 1984 they relocated to the ghost town of Mogollon, New Mexico, gateway to the beautiful Gila National Forest, where she and her husband have raised and home-schooled their three children. Vicki has been refining her art of pine needle basketry since 1976, when her sister-in-law, who had just learned the art from an elderly Native American neighbor, taught her to coil. The pine needles are collected locally from Ponderosa Pine trees. Needles are collected from the forest floor after they naturally shed from trees. Each basket requires hundreds to thousands of pine needles and many hours of collecting and coiling. Raffia or artificial sinew are used to sew the pine needles. Each basket is a unique-one-of a kind creation.
