Basketry
A World Guide to Traditional Techniques

This is a comprehensive guide to basketry, featuring many types of basketry from around the globe. It examines the techniques and materials used to construct baskets around the world and aims to demystify basketry and give a basis for understanding, appreciating and identifying different kinds.

In this book, Bryan Sentance talks at length about the techniques and materials used to construct baskets around the world. He demystifies basketry and gives a basis for understanding, appreciating and identifying the baskets of the world. Copious colour photographs, diagrams and archive photography of basketry from every inhabited continent are shown to provide a rich source of comparison and reference. This book will provide a wealth of information and visual reference not only to basketmakers, ethnologists and collectors, but also to artists, designers and students.

Introduction 1. Materials 2. Techniques 3. Decoration 4. From the Cradle to the Grave 5. The World at Your Fingertips Collecting Baskets * Glossary * Museums and Collections * Bibliography