The Nature of Basketry

by Ed Rossbach

Book Overview

This delightful book presents a wide variety of baskets with the author's view of "temporary" and "permanent" uses, and hundreds of photographs to illustrate his text. Basketmaking is a hand process that has never been mechanized and continues virtually unchanged in each part of the world. Here are found Asian, American and European ceremonial baskets, some of which support lavish facades of feathers and shells, as well as humble work baskets and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887400590
• ISBN13: 9780887400599
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"