How To Make Baskets

by Mary White and Neltje Blanchan

Book Overview

How to Make Baskets. PREFACE: THE twisting and weaving of Natures materials, grasses, twigs, rushes and vines into useful and beautiful forms seems almost instinctive in man. Perhaps it came to him as the nest-weaving instinct comes to birds-for at first he used it as they do, in the building of his house. Later shields and boats were formed of wicker work but how long ago the first basket was made no one is wise enough to tell us. Today Indian tribes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1408695243
• ISBN13: 9781408695241
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Obscure Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"