Featured Baskets, baskets, baskets... I just wanna see some nice Baskets !

I remember before there was a Reston

 

A tisket a tasket, very nice baskets.

 

The Patrick Dougherty pieces are wonderful, would love to see one
Here is one I have, made from bull and palm kelp, local to my area. lol, no, I didn't pay $60 for it

 

lovely baskets komo.
here's one of mine from sarawak. basket i got at a lun bawang wedding, came with a packet of local rice

 

Really there was no need to comment.....BUT......Thank You all for doing so !!

At least now my eyes feel better !!

 

All gorgeous baskets, thank you for showing us, everyone.

Since this is Antiquers, some antique baskets from my neck of the woods, although I'm sure similar ones were made in other parts of Europe. They are 'spoormandjes', used for rail travel in the late 1800s. I have two of them, but these are not mine (never got around to photographing mine).




And this is a gorgeous ca 1900 German market basket that has just been lovingly restored:


The lady who restored it used to be a....... florist.

 

Pfff, Komo... Why do I feel now as if I NEED to find and collect some baskets...

 

UHHHHHHHHH, NOOOOOOOOOOO, no baskets, ditto chairs, beds, couches.....
If i can't use it I am not interested, an 18th century W&M chest of drawers will hold my socks just as well today as it did 300 years ago for the 1st owner but baskets? NO, not happening! ditto chairs & beds! not comfy!

 

Baskets are very useful. My rail travel baskets hold some bits and pieces of regional dress. A bread basket is used for old bead necklaces for repair jobs, my antique and vintage decorative combs are kept in wicker cases, etc.
And... they could all hold socks as well.

 

UHHHHHH, NOOOOOOOOO

 

Uhm, you're right, no socks with my antique gilded tortoiseshell combs.

 

Although not revered as they once were, I proudly own a lovely Nantucket Basket by Jose Reyes!

 

The only basket I own currently is my sewing basket, which is from the 1980s. So that is a stretch. And I do not sew. LOL

And I have a basket that I picked up at a sale where I used it to hold some plastic reindeer that I was buying and they threw in the basket for free. Not old but handy.
Looks like it would be good for Easter, but... I would worry about selling it due to shipping it and being sort of fragile.

 

hahaha! It took a min, but I remember seeing this! I love "horror" movies...yes, even the dumb ones

 

Oooopsy....I did not mean or want this thread to go anywhere , or upset anyone...
BUT......now that it's got everyone's attention.....
there will be LIKES for all.....comments....& more of my baskets.

I love baskets....but yes...I have my favorites....& a great respect for the ladies.....& gentlemen who have produced them down thru the years.
I've sold numerous types & styles relating North American 1st Nations weavers, & a varied assortment of others , made worldwide.
I can't show them all....but here are some more of my favorites..



Navajo wedding basket, made by the Ute tribe.
U can still see the embedded corm mush....

Hooper bay Eskimo basket....very fine weave.



Tlingit spruce root & dyed grass Rattle Top basket....



Great Lakes quillwork...



Nootka cedar & dyed grass basket....near mint & 12 inches across !!!

All eye candy.....

 

These guys make superb baskets !!!!

 

There are many ways to use baskets......surely you could find at least one !

 

Because you do !!
Everyone should have a couple of baskets that they can marvel at !!!!

 

Stunning German weave !!

"The lady who restored it used to be a....... florist."
Verrrrry funny !!!!!