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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.
She removes the bark from the felled log and then splits apart the growth rings into finer and finer splints for basketry. The splints are dyed and soaked before weaving. [3] Church's baskets range from utilitarian fishing creels, market baskets, and bark baskets to rectangular wedding baskets and whimsical strawberry baskets. [4]
Pat Courtney Gold (January 22, 1939 – July 11, 2022) [1] was a Wasco Native fiber artist and basket weaver from the Columbia River area of Oregon. [2] She graduated with a BA in mathematics and physics from Whitman College and worked as a mathematician-computer specialist before beginning her career in basket weaving. [3]
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.
An enormous basket with a 36" diameter that took her four years to weave took first prize at the 1933 World's Fair. In 1950, Telles raffled off this basket, her son won it, and the National Park Service purchased it for their Yosemite Museum. [1] Lucy demonstrated basket making to park visitors from 1930 until her death in 1955 or 1956. [2]
Inupiat baleen basket, with an ivory polar bear and seal handle , made by George Omnik (1905 - 1978) of Point Hope, Alaska. Displayed at the Honolulu Museum of Art . Baleen basketry is a particular type of basketry , an Alaska Native art made from whale baleen developed in Utqiagvik , Point Hope , and Wainwright , Alaska by North Alaskan ...