Award-Winning Basket Designs

Award-Winning Basket Designs
Author: Pati English
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Basket making
ISBN: 9780764349713

Explore the art of basketry in this idea-filled book for weavers at all levels. Over 300 how-to photographs, guidance on using a fascinating selection of woven styles, and 15 original new patterns combine to offer much more than traditional, historical weaving. Learn the basics, materials, dyes, tools, and techniques; then practice, using all or parts of the book to create your own award-winning designs. Traditional baskets are updated with new techniques, while contemporary patterns employ flat, flat oval, and round reed in plaids, twills, spiral, braids, arrows, diamonds, twining, waling, handle wraps, rim borders, and more. A gallery section features the inspiring artwork of experts who are bringing unique ideas to twenty-first-century woven art. This book will serve as a practical guide and an essential reference for every basket weaver.

Contemporary Wicker Basketry

Contemporary Wicker Basketry
Author: Flo Hoppe
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1996
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN:

"Contemporary wicker baskets first presents you with the basics--tools and materials, weaving techniques, bases, borders, handles, and lids--with easy-to-follow instructions, detailed illustrations, and helpful how-to photographs. Then use what you learn to make any or all the 30 magnificent wicker baskets in the project section."--p. [4] of cover.

Rib Baskets

Rib Baskets
Author: Jean Turner Finley
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764341779

Step-by-step directions for making fourteen different rib baskets are accompanied by suggestions for variations to challenge the imagination of both novice and experienced basketmakers. With 231 images and 107 diagrams, this how-to guide offers general techniques and tips for successful weaving. Chapters on basketry tools, materials, and the components of a rib basket are included, as are answers to frequently asked questions. Directions for decorative weaving and composites of both contemporary and antique baskets provide further ideas for designing rib baskets that are uniquely one's own.

The Basket Book

The Basket Book
Author: Lyn Siler
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1988
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780806968308

There is nothing like the satisfaction of owning a beautiful handmade basket. They brighten any room, are useful around any home, and make cherished heirloom gifts. This magnificent collection of over 30 baskets draws on the long, rich tradition of basketmaking and uses a variety of fascinating techniques and easy-to-find materials. In a matter of hours, you can proudly produce a handsome basket that will be admired for generations to come. You'll appreciate the step-by-step instructions, including over 400 illustrations, colorful full-page photos and helpful hints and suggestions. Gorgeous watercolors of baskets are interspersed throughout, making this book as beautiful as it is useful. Book jacket.

Gift Basket Design Book

Gift Basket Design Book
Author: Shirley Frazier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2008-02-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0762752475

When she published her first book about starting a home-based gift basket business, Shirley George Frazier blazed the trail for other home-based business owners coast to coast. She also tapped a growing demand for gift baskets, the all-occasion solution for personalized and memorable presents. Her business was such a phenomenon that Frazier turned her experiences into a book to instruct readers how to make these baskets themselves, combining the creative with the practical and even providing designs for those who wanted to start their own business! This all-new revised edition features: *distinctive holiday ideas *alternate containers for gift baskets *new gift baskets geared for: the techie, the college student, the pet lover, and more! Shirley George Frazier is also the author of MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR THE HOME-BASED BUSINESS (November “07) and HOW TO START A HOME-BASED GIFT BASKET BUSINESS, 4th edition. She is a business owner and marketing expert who appears at small-business workshops across the country, and is often featured on TV network shows as an expert on home-based businesses.

Baskets

Baskets
Author: Tabara N'Diaye
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781787132702

Baskets are a simple but stylish way to organize your home. The craft of basketry has been around for decades, and has slowly evolved into the latest interior trend. These hard-working multitaskers are not only a practical storage option, but they are also decorative and instantly add texture and warmth to any room. Handled, woven, lined, colored, patterned, lidded – there are so many options when it comes to choosing the baskets you display in your home that fits your needs and your decorating style. Baskets will teach you how to master the art of basketry through the 15 projects in this book. Learn how to add pattern and colour to your woven wonders are you create a colourful collection of storage of your own. The projects include laundry baskets, baskets with lids, basket bags and backpacks, a gorgeous woven lampshade and a stylish collection of patterned tableware.

Basket Essentials: Rib Basket Weaving

Basket Essentials: Rib Basket Weaving
Author: Lora S. Irish
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607657155

· Learn the methods to the art of traditional rib basket weaving · Features 15 classic folk basket patterns, including egg, potato, and Appalachian baskets · Provides 3 complete projects with step-by-step instructions and photography · Focuses on proper techniques instead of just the how-to on an intermediate level · Author Lora Irish is an accomplished artist and maker of many trades

Circle Unbroken

Circle Unbroken
Author: Margot Theis Raven
Publisher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781439585290

In a powerful and rhythmic picture book, a grandmother tells the tale of Gullahs and their beautiful sweetgrass baskets that keep their African heritage alive. Reprint.

Contemporary Design Africa

Contemporary Design Africa
Author: Tapiwa Matsinde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2015
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN:

"Contemporary African Design offers a refreshing challenge to rigid perceptions of what African design looks like. Focusing primarily on interior decoration, the book presents fifty designers, artisans, and cooperatives based on the continent or part of the diaspora who are creating sophisticated and innovative products and interiors." --Publisher.

Jazzy Gift Baskets

Jazzy Gift Baskets
Author: Marie Browning
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402714726

Offers ideas for assembling gift baskets, and provides instructions for making a variety of baskets based on various themes, such as new baby, graduation, teacher appreciation, holidays, and others.