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Artist Lucy Telles and large basket, in Yosemite National Park, 1933 A woman weaves a basket in Cameroon Woven bamboo basket for sale in K. R. Market, Bangalore, India. Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts, such as baskets, mats, mesh bags or even furniture.
Some baskets are ceremonial, that is religious, in nature. [1] While baskets are usually used for harvesting, storage and transport, [2] specialized baskets are used as sieves for a variety of purposes, including cooking, processing seeds or grains, tossing gambling pieces, rattles, fans, fish traps, and laundry.
Until the popularity of ironwood carvings, baskets were the main notable craft of the Seri. [10] Coritas are mad with the branches of a brush or bush called torote (jatropha cuneatas), which grows in the desert. [1] Except for shoulder yokes used to carry bundles on the back, baskets were used to transport everything except liquids by the Seri.
Wicker baskets were used to carry items in Pompeii. [8] Furniture was manufactured out of wicker in the Roman style. [4] It has been proposed that the extensive use of wicker in the Iron Age (1200 BC – 400 AD in Europe) may have influenced the development of the woven patterns used in Celtic art.
Jeffrey Gale (born April 14, 1952 Huntington, New York) is an American craftsman, known for his white-ash basketry. His work is found in private collections [1] and in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery. [2]
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Mary Holiday Black (c. 1934 – December 13, 2022) was a Navajo basket maker and textile weaver from Halchita, Utah. [2] During the 1970s, in response to a long-term decline in Navajo basketry, Black played a key role in the revival of Navajo basket weaving by experimenting with new designs and techniques, pioneering a new style of Navajo baskets known as "story baskets."