basketry
Noun
Meaning
The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.
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Admission to the exhibit featuring David Hockney artworks and California basketry is $5.
Birch bark, puffin feathers, and baleen are also commonly used by the Aleut in basketry.
Each particular type of basketry, however, imposes certain limitations, which may lead to convergent effects: hexagonal openwork, for example, forms the same pattern the world over, just as twilled weaving forms the same chevrons (vertical or horizontal).
A winnowing basket is the most fragile of Zimbabwe’s basketry products which comprise tswanda, seme inchebethu, tundu, nhengwana.
Compared to the coiled techniques, all other types of basketry have a certain unity of construction: the standards form a foundation that is set up when the work is begun and that predetermines the shape and dimensions of the finished article.
Both traditional and contemporary basketry artists use kudzu.