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How to make baskets

White, Mary, 1869-, Doubleday, Nelli Blanchan De Graff, Mrs., 1865-1918 · 1911 · Doubleday, Page and co. · 73 pictures

A practical craft manual by Mary White, published by Doubleday, Page in 1911 for home weavers and teachers of hand basketry. Halftone plates group Native American coiled and twined baskets, trays, burden baskets and jars against plain grounds, showing stepped frets, zigzags, radiating stars and banded borders that work as geometric pattern sources and silhouette motifs.

Basket making

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