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technique of basketry

  • Basket weaving on Madeira Island, Portugal
    In basketry: Half-hitch and knotted coiling

    In knotted coiling, the thread forms knots around two successive rows of standards; many varieties can be noted in the Congo, in Indonesia, and among the Basket Makers, an ancient culture of the plateau area of southwestern United States, centred in parts of Arizona, New Mexico,…

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