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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9865716, member: 8267"]I would not identify it as Pakistani. Their baskets are, more typically, closely stitched so that the coil bundle is not exposed. They also use date palm leaves as the stitching element, which this does not appear to be. If this type of basket was imported in the 80s, I would expect to be able to find more examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has more in common with a European tradition of coiled rye straw baskets made for holding bread dough as it was rising, such as these French examples, where the dark stitching element is identified as split bramble (blackberry canes) -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]494917[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://canvasandcargo.com/products/french-coiled-rye-basket" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://canvasandcargo.com/products/french-coiled-rye-basket" rel="nofollow">https://canvasandcargo.com/products/french-coiled-rye-basket</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The tradition came over with German immigrants to Pennsylvania, where they used more oak or ash splints for stitching as these were more commonly prepared for use in other types of baskets - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]494920[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.zsinta.com/products/antique-hand-coiled-rye-straw-open-basket-11-inch?variant=40628260143171" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zsinta.com/products/antique-hand-coiled-rye-straw-open-basket-11-inch?variant=40628260143171" rel="nofollow">https://www.zsinta.com/products/antique-hand-coiled-rye-straw-open-basket-11-inch?variant=40628260143171</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The anomalous features on yours are the reversal of the stitching elements to create a design, and the treatment of the rim. The herringbone/false braid technique does appear in other traditions. But I have not yet found a well documented example that combines all of the features of your basket.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9865716, member: 8267"]I would not identify it as Pakistani. Their baskets are, more typically, closely stitched so that the coil bundle is not exposed. They also use date palm leaves as the stitching element, which this does not appear to be. If this type of basket was imported in the 80s, I would expect to be able to find more examples. It has more in common with a European tradition of coiled rye straw baskets made for holding bread dough as it was rising, such as these French examples, where the dark stitching element is identified as split bramble (blackberry canes) - [ATTACH=full]494917[/ATTACH] [URL]https://canvasandcargo.com/products/french-coiled-rye-basket[/URL] The tradition came over with German immigrants to Pennsylvania, where they used more oak or ash splints for stitching as these were more commonly prepared for use in other types of baskets - [ATTACH=full]494920[/ATTACH] [URL]https://www.zsinta.com/products/antique-hand-coiled-rye-straw-open-basket-11-inch?variant=40628260143171[/URL] The anomalous features on yours are the reversal of the stitching elements to create a design, and the treatment of the rim. The herringbone/false braid technique does appear in other traditions. But I have not yet found a well documented example that combines all of the features of your basket.[/QUOTE]
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