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Artist Lucy Telles and large basket, in Yosemite National Park, 1933 A woman weaves a basket in Cameroon Woven bamboo basket for sale in K. R. Market, Bangalore, India. Basket weaving (also basketry or basket making) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts, such as baskets, mats, mesh bags or even furniture.
Basketweave or Panama weave [1] is a simple type of textile weave. In basketweave, groups of warp and weft threads are interlaced so that they form a simple criss-cross pattern. Each group of weft threads crosses an equal number of warp threads by going over one group, then under the next, and so on.
The University of Portsmouth had a joke syllabus for underwater basket weaving on the Technology faculty pages, [19] and another joke syllabus proposal was posted by a University of Central Arkansas student magazine. [20] US punk band NOFX referred to an underwater basket weaving course in their song "Anarchy Camp". [21]
During World War II, Gallinger and her second husband ran a weaving studio and loom factory in Guernsey, Pennsylvania, near Gettysburg. One of their products was a loom for bed use, intended to be used by convalescent soldiers as occupational therapy. [5] They also launched a home-weaving program in Michigan.
A woven basket made by Lucy Telles (National Museum of the American Indian) Telles, who learned basket weaving as a child, was well known for her fine basketry during her lifetime. Her innovations in basket weaving had a lasting influence on Yosemite weavers. While traditional Miwok baskets had one color, she used two colors per basket.
She taught basket weaving, beading, and pottery making to beginners, and taught the more advanced students to make rag dolls, cross-stitch, dyeing, fingerweaving, rag weaving, and spinning. [12] She continued to teach art and married Edward Wapp c. 1940, [14] giving birth to their first child, Barbara, in August 1940. [15]