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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 210394, member: 45&quot;]Actually, it&#039;s Mexican, from the Toluca Valley.&nbsp; Those wrapped stitches between the coils are key, since they are common in two places...Mexico, and a few Polynesian islands like Niue, Tonga, and Samoa.&nbsp; The islands, however, don&#039;t use bright colors, only natural tans and browns.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So if you can see spaces between the coils, and they are wrapped with brightly colored palm fiber, it&#039;s likely a Mexican basket.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If it&#039;s palm fiber wrapped coils, bright colors, but you can&#039;t see any space between the coils, it&#039;s most likely African.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bright colors, palm fiber coils, but there are some spaces left on the coils where you can see the underlying foundation of the coil itself, one side of the basket is left rougher than the other, and it has a braided or herringbone rim, it&#039;s Pakistani.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bright colors, small yucca stitches completely covering the coil, tight coils starting with a &quot;snail-like&quot; center and tapering down to nothing on the rim...it&#039;s Hopi.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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