Talk:Basket

Which technique came first, basketry or weaving? Wetman 16:56, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

This page needs a picture&mdash;Trevor Caira 22:41, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * It's got a wonderful one now! -- Chris 22:24, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

The page seems to be weighed towards describing baskets as historical or tribal objects instead of a long-lived contemporary craft. Maybe the views could be separated or made more neutral somehow?

Where did the Gift Basket Originate?
"Since the beginning of mankind, man has woven grasses, straw, twigs and branches to create baskets. Early uses for the basket were to store dry goods and to transport food and materials. In biblical times, larger baskets were used for transporting people and goods on the water. Always a useful, sturdy container, it was a tool of man for tens of thousands of years."

The First American Gift Baskets

When the Mayflower landed on the shores of America, the European settlers were greeted with the first gift baskets. Dried fish and meats, corn, beans and other vegetables were presented to the settlers, by the American Indians, to welcome their arrival. In the 1700 and 1800’s, individuals created baskets full of fruits, foods and candies for Christmas, Easter and other holidays. Today’s gift baskets are crafted to the individual recipients tastes for holidays, special occasions or “just because” gift giving. Fruits, foods and candies now share space in gift baskets with “useable” items for the baby, the bath, the kitchen or for play. The baskets or boxes themselves are designed to be creatively used as well by the recipient once they’ve enjoyed the contents of the gift basket. Many baskets, of all different styles and themes, can be found at websites such as [Giftbaskey.com] and [GiftBaskets.com].

Article by: L Flynn —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Torree (talk • contribs) 12:39, 9 February 2007 (UTC).

Baskets as Art
Someone might want to tackle the issue of baskets as art, such as the following contemporary basket collections. I'm sure there are historic collections as well. I'm upgrading the article on the Erie Art Museum in Erie, Pennsylvania. They have a contemporary basket collection as part of the permanent holdings of the museum, but it seems useless to link the article to the basket page. If I've missed the internal link to collectible art baskets, let me know.--Pat 03:14, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Arkansas Arts Center
 * Sylvia White Collection
 * Sara and David Lieberman Collection
 * del Mano Gallery

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Infobombing for the moment here...

Basket Age

 * ''There are two reasons, according to Jim Adovasio, we don’t think of baskets or textiles when we think of the Stone Age. One is that stones and bones, being far more durable, are far more common at archeological sites than artifacts made of fiber. But the other reason, says Adovasio, an archeologist at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania, is a bias on the part of archeologists who study the era. The Upper Paleolithic record has largely been interpreted by males who are closet macho hunters of the steppes--if not explicit ones, he says. Their emphasis has been on stone technology, large-animal hunting, and the accoutrements of machismo. Weaving isn’t as exciting as running around sticking things into mammoths.


 * ''And yet it has been around a long time, as four small pieces of clay described by Adovasio this past year make clear. Found at a site called Pavlov in the Czech Republic, they are 27,000 years old--and impressed with patterns that could only have been created by woven fibers. These artifacts push back the date of the earliest known weaving by 10,000 years.


 * "The conventional wisdom has been that a time-consuming task like weaving would only be practiced by sedentary, agrarian cultures. The people of Pavlov were hunter-gatherers, but technologically sophisticated ones-- the world’s oldest known ceramics were also discovered at the site. University of Illinois archeologist Olga Soffer was looking for more ceramics when she happened upon a few pieces of fired clay with regular impressions. I had no idea what it was, Soffer recalls, but I knew I was dealing with something important.


 * Pavlovian culture

The Gravettian of Moravia – The Pavlovian and the Willendorf-Kostenkian
http://www.anthropark.wz.cz/pavlova.htm

Textile impressions in fragments of fired and raw clay

 * The scientists noticed unusual regular parallel lines in the fired clay unearthed in the Pavlov Hills sites. James M. Adovasio (working together with Olga Soffer), a specialist in prehistoric textiles, who studies Palaeolithic Indian sites in America, was the first to evaluate these lines as textile impressions. He even proved various types of twining and manufacturing of ropes. The Pavlovian sites yielded the oldest proof of the existence of textile in the past of the Homo sapiens. Fibres from nettles were probably utilized, but import of plants giving finer fibres from warmer regions could also be possible. In eastern Europe there exists a calvary unearthed near the Skhodnya River, which also bears a surface structure reminding of an imprint of a coarse textile. The calvary was studied by O.N.Bader, who was also involved in the excavations of the Sungir site. It is still unclear if it is an impression of textile made deliberately by people.


 * Kortoso (talk) 05:05, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Another type of basket
See Talk:Inca road system for another type of basket. Peter Horn User talk 01:17, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

"Bakset" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Bakset. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 26 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. -- Tamzin (she/they, no pref.) &#124; o toki tawa mi. 22:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Basket materials
See relevant information at

Garden furniture - materials section

Resin wicker

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