Natural Basketry Author:Carol Hart, Dan Hart This book, for beginners and experienced basketmakers alike, provides a complete guide to making wicker, splint, coiled, and twined baskets. The reader will learn how to use commercial materials, gather and prepare natural materials, and how to make dyes from natural materials. Each part of the book also includes two complete step-by-step basket... more »-making demonstrations that provide a full spectrum of basket shapes, sizes, lids, handles and and decorative techniques.
Wicker Basketry includes the use of round reeds and fibers - jute, sea grass, paper cord, rush - as well as wild and garden materials such as weeping willow branches, honey-suckle vines, cattails, and wisteria runners. The dyestuffs used are made from black walnut and butternut hulls, yellow onion skins, and barberry stems.« less