basket
- Museum number
- 2014,8023.6
- Description
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Shallow round basket in willow stake-and-strand weave, with trac border, in buff willow weave patterned with three bands of white. The slath or base sticks tied with willow skeins in a contrasting colour.
- Production date
- 1990 (before)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 30.50 centimetres
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Height: 6.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Vitums works mostly in round peeled willow, buff or white.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Given to the Basketmakers' Association in the early 1990s by basketmaker Andris Lapins during his visit to the Basketmakers'Association School in Woodrow, Yorkshire. Lapins had brought with him a group of baskets by a number of Latvian makers and gave them to the Association in exchange for the makers' subscription fees.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2014,8023.6