File:How to make Indian and other baskets (1903) (14750390574).jpg

Identifier: howtomakeindiano00jame (find matches)
Title: How to make Indian and other baskets
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indian baskets Basket making
Publisher: New York : H. Malkan

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
'
Text Appearing After Image:
HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. INTRODUCTION. Just now the making of Indian and other baskets is a fad. Likeall other fads it will have its day and then die. But unlike many fadsthere is something in the making of baskets that will keep the artalive, when those who practised it merely as a fad have forgotten thatthey ever were interested in it. It is singularly appropriate that I, the son of my father, shouldwrite a treatise on basket making. The earliest remembrances of mylife are connected with that art, as my father was a basket maker, notsimply a trader in baskets, but personally a skilled workman himself.My oldest brother, too, learned the art and was a good workman. Well do I remember, as a child, a season when coal was dear andscarce, as during the recent Eastern coal strike. My father, alwaysa man of originality, rose at once to meet the occasion, and made amixture of coal dust and the thick ends or nubbins cut from theends of new sphowtomakeindiano00jame

Note About Images