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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.
For Neptune, weaving baskets with their grandmother and the women of their tribe was a sacred thing, a crucial first step in understanding their [4] identity as Two-Spirit. In February 2021, Neptune was awarded a $50,000 fellowship award from United States Artists for their accomplishments and ongoing creative excellence in black ash basketry.
Dart is a Cherokee artist, specializing in the art of double-wall basketry, a difficult technique involving the continuous weave of both an interior and exterior wall within each basket. He learned the art of basketry in 1992 from weaver Shawna Morton-Cain, also a Cherokee National Treasure.
Navajo rugs are woven by Navajo women today from Navajo-Churro sheep, other breeds of sheep, or commercial wool. Designs can be pictorial or abstract, based on historic Navajo, Spanish, Asian, or Persian designs. 20th century Navajo weavers include Clara Sherman and Hosteen Klah , who co-founded the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian .
Mary Jackson (born 1945) is an African American fiber artist.She is best known for her sweetgrass basket weaving using traditional methods combined with contemporary designs.
The river cane basketry art is at minimum 3000 years old, and can arguably be considered "the most difficult and complex of weaving technologies." [14] The plant was used to make structures, arrow shafts, weapons, torches, fishing equipment, jewelry, baskets, musical instruments, furniture, boats, pipe stems, and medicines. [15]
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.
Most baskets were sold to Islanders, although a tourist trade quickly developed. Lightship Baskets began being used as purses in the 1900s and still are today. True Nantucket Lightship baskets currently start at about $500 and can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. [8] Poorly made knock-offs, however, can be had for far less. [8]