By: Flo Hoppe
192 pages, 30 patterns. Spiral bound, beautiful color photography as well as detailed illustrations and excellent instructions as only Flo Hoppe can write. Basketmakers of all skill levels can now learn to create outstanding wicker (round reed) baskets, ranging from a simple round pincushion basket to the more challenging triangular and square baskets. This comprehensive volume will lead the basketmaker, whether beginner or advanced easily through many types of baskets with clearly written and illustrated instructions.
Includes: round, oval, square and triagular bases, a variety of weaves for color and texture, many decorative and sturdy borders, round and square lids, adding handles, designing your own original baskets.
By: B.J. Crawford We are very disappointed that this book is out of print.
80 pages. Detailed step by step photos. Beautifully photographed and created for the beginner, this fabulous introductory basketry course, with 18 enticing projects, will have you finishing a decorative basket the very first weekend. The author offers the fruits of her 30 years' experience: time-tested tips for adding bases, shaping baskets, substituting materials, adding embellishments and many more tricks. A wealth of knowledge on reeds covers everything from preparation to dyeing and finishing, and there's instruction on all the different basket-weaving structures. The projects teach a variety of techniques, each one building upon the last. Start with a small Basic Basket that uses 11 key procedures, and then move on to a charming Market Basket, which includes an attractive handle.
By: Judy Mofield Mallow
Hard cover, 112 pages. More than 40 projects. Beautiful colored photos on almost every page. This book contains everything you need to know to teach yourself to make beautiful pine needle baskets.
Create picturesque pine needle baskets, miniatures, trays, pencil holders and more. Special sections address dyeing needles, making lids and handles, techniques, and gathering and storing materials. “Mallow is an excellent teacher with a gift for keeping the subject entertaining and easy to follow.”—Small Press. “Beginners can create a basket by coiling and stitching together pine needles.”—Country Decorating Ideas
THE BASKET BOOK
by: Lyn Siler We are no longer going to
carry this book because so much of it is now in The Ultimate Basket Book described
below.
By: Lyn Siler
Two of the most celebrated basket-making books—The Basket Book (277,000 copies sold) and Handmade Baskets (nearly 70,000)—are now together in one magnificent resource. Better still, it features 10 extra projects and beautiful brand-new color photography. The acclaimed Lyn Siler has surely created the definitive guide to the craft. She thoroughly explores tools and materials; introduces all the fundamental techniques—weaving, plaiting, coiling, twining, and wailing; and provides advice on adding rims, bases, and handles. With her help, it’s simple to create functional everyday baskets, such as the Twill Weave Market or Double Lidded Picnic baskets, as well as decorative items. A collection of baskets by many well known designers.
By: Lyn Siler, Illustrated by Carolyn Kemp
Spiral bound. 112 pages. Beautiful color photography. 24 great basket patterns from easy beginner to more challenging advanced by many well known basket designers including Lyn Siler, Judy Wilson, Debra Hammond, Eileen La Porte, Gail Hutchinson, Laura Lee Zanger, Joanne Kelly Catsos, Sosse Baker and more.
By: Mary Hettmansperger
Award-winning fiber artist Mary Hettmansperger reveals the secrets of using traditional basketry techniques to create 28 striking pieces of jewelry. It's a new and exciting approach that yields remarkable results--even for beginners. She covers four basic procedures--plaiting, knotting, looping, and twining--and incorporates materials such as copper, colorful wire, natural fibers, even bottle tops and bark. The array of projects includes soft-fiber necklaces as well as one made from looped linen over a forged silver mold: small retro pins, bright and colorful in twined pattern shaped; and a variety of pieces made from wire twisted with beads. There's no other book like it, and it's sure to appeal to a diverse range of crafters
By: Nancy Gruber
22 pages, "16 Beautiful handles to add a special touch to any hand-woven basket pattern." Great color photos and detailed illustrations with clear instructions.
By: Nellann Roberts
23 pages, 12 patterns. Color photos and step by step instructions.
By: Grace Kabel
23 pages, 9 patterns. Complete instructions, diagrams, full-color photos.
By: Grace Kabel
23 pages, 7 patterns. Complete instructions, diagrams, full-color photos.
By: Grace Kabel
23 pages, 8 patterns. Complete instructions, diagrams, full-color photos
By: Grace Kabel
23 pages, 8 patterns. Complete instructions, diagrams, full-color photos
By: Donna Rohkohl
17 pages, patterns for 3 bassinets and three cradles including one full size baby cradle.
By: Nancy Gruber
7 pages, 3 patterns.
By: Mary Hammond
9 pages, 4 patterns.
By: Bruce W. Miller and Jim Widess
143 pages. Soft cover. Black and white photography and detailed illustrations. Give life to old cane furniture as well as weaving seats and backs for new pieces. Traditional techniques and new shortcuts make caning with wicker, rattan, raw-hide, and other materials easy. Useful charts detail how much fiber to buy and what standard lengths are available. “An excellent purchase for any size library.”—Library Journal.
