Inside Out Library · Explore

The Priscilla basketry book a collection of baskets and other articles with lessons for working and directions for dyeing and staining

Fitzgerald, Sallie Garrison, 1882-, Priscilla Publishing Co · 1911 · Boston, Mass. The Priscilla publishing company · 28 pictures

A 1911 instructional manual on basket making by Sallie Garrison Fitzgerald, issued by the Priscilla Publishing Company in Boston for home craftworkers, with working lessons and dyeing directions. Halftone photographs show raffia, reed and splint woven flat against plain grounds: plaited rectangles, radiating spoke bases, open lace-like rosettes—usable as texture fills, radial motifs and grid patterns.

Basket making

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · More from this library