Contemporary international basketmaking /
"What is a basket? This is a question both for the reader and for the artists and makers who have entered this field, attracted by the potential of its variety of techniques and materials. Basketmaking is not only a tradition but also a contemporary art form; it is not only a pre-industrial tec...
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London :
Merrell Holberton : In association with the Crafts Council,
1999.
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Table of Contents:
- The origins of contemporary basketmaking: What is a basket?
- Basketmaking before and after the Industrial Revolution
- Basketmaking in Britain in the twentieth century: decline, renaissance and tradition
- Traditional and modern in British basketmaking
- European traditions of basketmaking
- Basketmaking and its cultural meanings worldwide
- New directions in contemporary basketmaking
- Stories from a new world/Laurel Reuter
- Artists' voices
- Techniques : Stake and strand
- Frame baskets
- Coil
- Interlace
- Assembly
- Plait
- Twine
- Knotting, netting, linking and looping.