Basketry The Nantucket Tradition History Techniques Proojects

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A complete how-to manual for one of the best-known baskets in the world. Nantucket baskets--with their nesting sizes, wooden bottoms, cane weavers, and bail handles--are immediately recognizable and universally admired. Here, one of the world's top authorities on basketmaking shows how to make all the classic Nantucket styles. More than 200 photos lead you through each basket cane by cane, and color photos of exquisitely fashioned baskets suggest why they're worth the trouble. There's also a fine photo essay about the New England island of Nantucket, with its colorful history of sailors with nothing to do for months on end but make baskets that have become classics for collectors and weavers alike.