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.

Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.) article on basketry, covering the history of basket-making from ancient and non-European traditions to English trade practice around 1900. It describes willow and osier grades and preparation, the few tools used, the basic strokes (slew, rand, fitch, pair, wale) and the construction of an oval basket from slath to border. It also covers other materials (cane, bamboo, palm, rush), centres of manufacture, and tables of British import values for basket-ware and willows, 1900 and 1905.