Barber's Baskets
Charleston, ORBrand
For more than 40 years, Don Barber built ocean going wood boats in the Pacific Northwest community of Coos Bay, Oregon. In 1979 Don retired from shipbuilding and started a family business handcrafting baskets out of rare myrtlewood.
We are still a family business. Our founding fathers are gone now but many of the same tools and skills used in boat building are still in use at the basket shop today.
Some of the original Barber's Baskets are still in use at the basket shop too. People say "These are collectors items!" And you know, they are right - we collect them.....and use them daily. That is what makes them special to us and to the many people who have wrote to us with their kind words of appreciation.
