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When you begin learning the exciting craft of basketmaking, mastering simple round shapes is the aim and underpins all further skill development. So my home soon filled with round baskets of all sizes - in the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom. Simple storage and display baskets with a multitude of uses or purely to look pretty. And nothing looks much prettier than a beautiful bread basket on a kitchen or dining room table.
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I have added this beautiful buff willow basket to the Folksy perfectly imperfect weekend eventnot because it is imperfect but because I am clearning old designs ready for new ones. A simple but beautiful willow bread basket hand-woven from buff willow.
Basketry is considered to be one of the oldest traditional crafts in the world, pre-dating pottery - and found in one form or another in almost every country in the world using whatever local materials were available. Baskets were essential for storing and transporting things and in fishing and agricultural - such as fish traps, crab pots and harvesting baskets. Every village or district would have had its own basketmaker - the last few surviving traditional crab-pot makers are hanging on to an ancient but declining skill.
Classified as a heritage craft, the traditional skill of willow weaving was waining in this country, but with current green living practices - willow-work fits in perfectly as a renewable and sustainable product which will last for many years and will ultimately biodegrade back into the earth.
Basketry is a beautiful craft - completely absorbing - addictive as my students would say. I love every aspect of it and am constantly challenged by new designs and patterns.
Base 16cms x top 26cms x height 13cms.
Designed by Anne & Alan Thomas in Cornwall
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