Description: Over the centuries, basket-making techniques have been used to manufacture crab or lobster pots, eel traps, winnowing fans, horse collars, fish creels, seed-gathering baskets, and much more. These items and many others are fully described, and often pictured, in this profusely illustrated third edition of an authoritative classic. The author -- a lifelong student of basketry and cataloger of the basket collection of the Museum of English Rural Life -- relates the history and geography of various sorts of baskets and gives the specifics of their construction. She provides detailed advice on basket design, materials, techniques, care and repair, and gives step-by-step instructions, or "recipes, " for making a variety of baskets, including a tall oval shopping basket, wastepaper basket, lidded picnic basket, wine cradle, fruit bowl, cane rattle, carpet beater, and more -- made with a variety of materials. A fascinating, authoritative survey of one of the oldest and most enduring crafts.

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