How to Make Baskets (Classic Reprint): With a Chapter on What the Basket Means to the Indian (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
Sinopsis
Explore the art and meaning of traditional baskets from Native American communities. This concise guide reveals the craftsmanship, symbols, and daily uses behind these woven treasures, offering insight into how baskets tell stories as they hold food, goods, and ritual objects.
This edition presents clear, practical instructions alongside rich cultural context. You’ll see how materials, weaving techniques, and design choices reflect both everyday life and ceremonial beliefs. The book also discusses how basketry shapes and colors convey meaning across tribes, and why preservation matters.
- Learn the basic tools, materials, and steps used to create coiled, woven, and stand-alone baskets.
- Discover how patterns and symbols express tribal lore, tides, rain, and harvests.
- See how baskets function in homes, ceremonies, and daily tasks—from food prep to storage.
- Understand historical changes and the responsible efforts to preserve this art form.
Ideal for readers of craft history, ethnography, and anyone curious about traditional arts and their living meanings.
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Excerpt from How to Make Baskets: With a Chapter on "What the Basket Means to the Indian"
The twisting and weaving of Nature's materials, grasses, twigs, rushes and vines into useful and beautiful forms seems almost instinctive in man. Perhaps it came to him as the nest-weaving instinct comes to birds - for at first he used it as they do, in the building of his house. Later shields and boats were formed of wicker work but how long ago the first basket was made no one is wise enough to tell us. Today Indian tribes in South America weave baskets from their native palms, South African negroes use reeds and roots, while the Chinese and Japanese are wonderful workmen in this as in other arts and industries; but basketry has come down to us more directly through the American Indian. Generations of these weavers have produced masterpieces, many of which are preserved in our museums, and the young basket maker need not go on long pilgrimages to study the old masters of his craft. Here at last, as in England, the value of manual training is being realized, and basketry is taking an important place.
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HOW TO MAKE 'BASKETS CHAPTER I MATERIALS, TOOLS. PREPARATION, VEAVING Matetials.-We shall use a great deal of rattan in making these baskets. It is a kind of palo) which grows in the forests of India, twining about the trees and hanging in graceful festoons from the branches, sometinles to the length of five hundred feet, it is said, though seldom over an inch in diameter. It comes to us stripped of leaves and bark) and split into round or fiat strips of various sizes, which are numbered by the nlanufacturer from I up to about 15) No. I being the finest as well as the most costly. Rattan .can be bought (usually in five.pound lots) at basket factories in our large CJtles. Numbers 2, 3 and 4 are the best sizes for small baskets and 3, 5, and 6 for scrap baskets. Raffia, which is woven into snlall baskets, dolls' hats, etc .• comes from Madagascar. It is a pale yellow material, soft and pliable, the outer cuticle of a palm, and can be bought at .seed stores in 3
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PREPACE • • • • • • • v; CHAPTER I; ~IATBRIALS, TOOLS, PREPARATION, WEAVING; CHAPTER II; RAl'FIA AND SOME OF ITS USES • • II; CHAPTER III; MATS AND THEIR BORDERS • • • • 21; ~ CHAPTER IV; THE SWPLEST BASKETS • • • 27; CHAPTER V; COVERS • • • • • • 33; CHAPTER VI; HANDLES • • • • • • 51; CHAPTER VII; WORK BASKETS • • • 6S; VU
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