AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF BASKET-MAKING

by Thomas Okey

This vintage book contains an elementary guide to the art of basket-making, being a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the practice. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful information and invaluable tips, this text will be of considerable utility to novice basket-makers, and would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book Material and Its Preparation, Tools, Terminology, Common Slewed Work, Etched Work, Sub-Divisions of Randed Work, A Method of Making Round and Oval Work, etcetera. This antiquarian volume is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Hardcover

First published May 7, 2010

About the author

Thomas Okey (1852 – 1935) was a British expert on basket weaving, a translator of Italian, and a writer on art and the topography of architecture and art works in Italy and France.

In 1919, he became the first Serena Professor of Italian at the University of Cambridge. Okey was a hereditary basket maker from a poor East End of London family,