The Art of Basket Making
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An instructional handbook on English willow and cane basket-making from Pitman's Handwork Series. It covers materials and their preparation, tools, and terminology, then walks through slewed, fitched, and randed work, with chapters on round, oval, and square baskets, borders, handles, covers, skein handles, and plaited hasps and nooses. It is illustrated with numerous figures and photographs of finished baskets and construction steps, and ends with a conclusion and glossary.
- Type
- Book
- Date
- c. 1912
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 122
- Archive notes
- Scanned images provided by Tess Parrish
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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