Basketwork

Handwritten signs lead to homes selling hand-crafted baskets and simple pottery; the local basketwork is particularly fine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A dozen or more canoes were beached along the mud flats; some of them dug-out trees, others of a kind of basketwork covered in skins. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)

The little lug on its left side is made to look like basketwork, which makes me think the shape of the whole vessel might imitate a wicker or maybe leather container. ❋ Blake Gopnik (2010)

Its crisp, clear surface has been sandblasted with the fine patterns of traditional basketwork, making it look almost as though Feddersen had cast an actual basket in frosted glass. ❋ Blake Gopnik (2010)

Neither did they have any ceramic or pottery vessels, relying instead on items made from stone or basketwork. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Skill and effort in the basketwork and writing, though - just a truly alarming lack of judgement in the face department. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A wigwam of driftwood spars lashed to the central totem pole was encircled by a pattern of grey sticks laid out like basketwork and punctuated by such objects as the flip-flop sandals and trainers that seem perpetually to ride the waves, Coke cans, garish cork or plastic lobster-pot buoys and the armoured white carapaces of spider crabs that abound on this beach. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

I prop a ladder against one side, lay two scaffold boards along the basketwork of the roof and rope them down. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

They even buy bolts of them to stand in the church aisle at weddings, but the growers now sell more to individual women making basketwork as a hobby than to wholesalers or manufacturers. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

I drove them in with the beetle and gently wrestled the pleachers into the twiggy basketwork. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Thus, in Africa, when I was daily confronted with real destitution, I still collected, be it pottery or masks or basketwork, telling myself, naturally, that I was helping to create jobs and feed the starving. ❋ L. Lee Lowe (2006)

The river, on the banks of which grow the ancient cypress trees which provide the raw material for much of the local basketwork, has now been dammed, just to the south of the town, creating a picturesque lake. ❋ Unknown (2000)