Basketry

4″ Nantucket basket with ebony  base and maple rim.
It’s so wonderful to know craftsmen and artists in various fields.  If not for the basket makers I know I would never have had the wonderful experience of learning from Anne Lima.
This little basket took three days to make, and I have a long way to go on the finishing.  My reward for finishing this basket will be to attach the beautiful maple handle with ebony inlay!Ann Lima is a wonderful basket maker and teacher from Matapoisett, near New Bedford and Cape Cod.
She is the daughter of well known basket maker Gladys Ellis, who designed the “Matapoisett Basket” which combines a number of traditional basket techniques with stunning results!

Anne brought a tray of scrimshaw with her, made by a man whose name I must learn!  I had to have this little gem for a future basket.
 

Yes!  I’m smitten….

 

 

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