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Make your own vintage baskets! Includes illustrations and instructions to make baskets and other items.
Cane Basket Work: A Practical Manual on Weaving Useful and Fancy Baskets. Originally Published in England between the years 1897 - 1905.
84 pages, including cover and a few vintage advertisments.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 - Materials
CHAPTER 2 - Terms in use- spokes, single and double weaving, pairing, triple twist, rope twist, single or double plait
CHAPTER 3 - Directions for workers- wet canes, size of canes, spokes, weaving, splicing
CHAPTER 4 - Finishing touches- varnish, singeing, enamel
CHAPTER 5 - General instructions
CHAPTER 6 - Remarks on borders- open and closed borders
CHAPTER 7 - Fancy Baskets- tumbler or flower pot cover, pincushion basket, round or work basket with lid, barrell shaped paper basket with wooden base, pail shaped basket with cane base, fern hanger, toilet tidy, oval basket, square basket with wooden base, square basket with curved corners, flower basket, waste basket, table basket, tripod stand, table center, vase, stove ornament.
Priscilla Basketry Book No. 1. Lessons in Reed Weaving, Indian Basketry, Splint work and Chair Caning. Originally published in 1924.
32 pages, including cover
CONTENTS:
Lessons in Basketry, Introduction
A reed basket
Flower bowl
Hanging basket
Lacework basket
Carrying basket
Reed lamp for library table
Descriptions of weaves, bases and borders
Weaves- Japanese, triple, under and over, four rod coil, four rod arrow, bellfonte
Serving tray with plaited border
Indian Basketry
How to imitate Indian baskets
Indian stitches and designs - Lazy squaw, hem stitch, figure eight, the real Indian stitch
Covers and handles
Designs
A Daisy basket
A charming flower basket
Window box
Waste basket
Hanging basket
An artistic consule table
How to recane old chairs
Dyeing and staining
Pine Needle Basketry: A complete Book of Instructions for Making Pine Needle Baskets.Originally published in 1920.
36 pages
CONTENTS:
Sugestions for articles to be made from Pine Needles and Wire Grasses - vases, jardiniers, baskets, bowls, table mats, trays, work baskets, hanging baskets, candlesticks, lamp bowl, lamp shade, tumble coasters.
Hanging Basket #1
Selecting and preparing materials
Wire grass
Pine Cones
Raffia
General directions for starting a round article
Directions for making the various stitches, chain stitch
Splicing
Shaping
Wheat stitch
Spiral Wheat stitch
Fern stitch
Ti or Knot stitch
Making the Ti stitch alike on both sides
Designing
Another suggestion
Oval basket and trays
Finishing
Handles
Handles for a round tray
Loop handles
Glass bottoms
Detailed directions for making oval sandwich tray
Directions for making open work basket
Directions for making hanging basket
Oval tray made from wire grass
Jardiniere made from pine needles
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