Featured Pine needle bottle

Found this today. I have no evidence that it's tribal, but it could be. I can't find anything online like it.

The bottle: It's clear glass, 11.5" / 29cm tall, and flares slightly inward halfway down the straight sides. It has a seam, so was not hand made. The mouth has intermittent straight threads for the (missing) cap (ie, the threads are not angled down for tightening). Perhaps this can help date the bottle itself.

The weaving: pine needles, with some sort of glue or shellac on them to make them hard and durable. There is a small amount of 'play' between the basket / weaving and the bottle itself, suggesting it has expanded over time. Wear on the bottom is less than I might otherwise expect, since it seems older. There's darkened dust on the top portion of the weaving.

Any help identifying where or when this might have come from will be much appreciated!

 

can't say I know...... but as the saying goes.... " you can't put old weaving , over a new bottle " !

and that's as nice a pine needle weave....as I've ever seen !

 

Wow--- I love hearin' that! Thank you.

 

It is nicely done. I've seen a lot of basket-covered bottles, of various origins, but never one covered with pine-needles.

 

I have seen shellac coatings on Teneriffe style pine needle baskets, and I suspect it has been used since the 19th century. But I have not seen coiled pine needles done over a bottle before. It is particularly nice how the weaver has aligned the fascicles/caps of the needles to form the swirling vertical lines. More often the fascicles are removed for a smoother surface, as was done on the bottom of the bottle.

 

And then there's this one:

 

Add it to your collection!

 

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