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Handmade Baskets: 28 Beautiful
Baskets To Make For Your Home
by Lyn Siler
Basic instruction on weaves types along with commonly used basketmaking
materials. Beginner and advanced beginner projects can be made with readily
available materials.
Handmade
Baskets: From Nature's Colourful Materials
by Susie Vaughan
This delightful and colorful book is full of step by step instructions in identifying,
harvesting, processing and incorporating native materials into a variety of baskets. Full
color illustration. Paperback.
Hin:
The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Bamboo Art
Contributing authors: Robert T. Coffland and Donald Doe
Bamboo basket making is a practice that has been around for thousands of
years and is still admired to this day. Hin: The work of 37 modern Japanese bamboo
basket makers is celebrated. Included here are two essays, one discussing Japanese
baskets as an art form, and another on bamboo collecting in the west.
Photographs illustrate the stunning detail of each piece. Also included
is an index of artists and their biographies. Also available in
paperback.
Homemade
Money
by Barbara Brabec
How to select, start, manage, market and multiply the profits of an at home business.
Features hundreds of new tips, sidebars and examples from more than 200 readers and
business professionals. Paperback.
Hopi
Basket Weaving
by Helga Teiwes
This book is filled with photographs and detailed descriptions of Hopi
baskets. The weavers open their lives to the outside world as a means of
sharing an art form especially demanding of time and talent. The reader
learns how plant materials are gathered, prepared, dyed and the baskets
created using techniques of coiling, plaiting, or wicker work.
Hopi Wicker Plaques and Baskets
by Robert W. Rhodes This new and original survey details the beautiful styles and designs of woven plaques and baskets made by Hopi women artists of Third Mesa in Arizona. It presents 67 different design categories through over 475 color photographs. The history of the Hopi people, weaving materials and techniques, different uses of the baskets and plaques, and their values today all are discussed. Explanations of the named pattern designs, including Sunflower, Wedding Basket, and Dragonfly, as well as unnamed and the coveted Katsina plaques are given. This valuable reference enables readers to more easily identify old and contemporary examples in private collections, museums, and art galleries.
How to Weave Hawaiian Coconut Palm Fronds
This step by step guide to weaving with palm fronds was authored by Jim Widess.
Projects include a round basket, a square basket, a traditional
palm frond hat, a trio of hanging baskets, a bird, two fish, a
grasshopper and a rose. Spiral binding allows the book to lay
flat. 72 pages. Published in
2006.
How
To Weave A Pine Needle Basket
by Ginger Jolly
A small book with instruction good for beginners. Coiling instructions for left handers
included. Paperback.
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