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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.
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.
A wicker basket filled with apples. Wicker is a method of weaving used to make products such as furniture and baskets, as well as a descriptor to classify such products. It is the oldest furniture making method known to history, dating as far back as c. 3000 BC.
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.
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.
For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.
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]