How to Make Baskets by Mary White - 1913 Edition 1880s Close to 100 years ago

Close to 100 years ago this petite sugar bowl was hand-painted in the bustling city of Nagoya

Part of a companion series which included Flowers in Colour and Garden Plants in Colour

Whole Grain Bread

Rare pieces in rare pattern

How to Make Baskets by Mary White - 1913 Edition 1880s Close to 100 years agoThe twisting and weaving of Nature's materials, grasses, twigs, rushes and vines, into useful and beautiful forms seems almost instinctive in man. Mary White {HISTORY} This how to book on basket making written by Mary White and first published in 1901, was initially intended to teach kids how to make a wide variety of baskets for use and decoration. It became so popular that it was reprinted many times over the next several decades and turned into a