Antique Art Deco Basketry Book CD '24! Reed Pine Needle
The Priscilla Basketry
Book
No. 1
Lessons in Reed Weaving,
Indian Basketry, Splint Work
and Chair Caning
CD
REPUBLICATION
Originally
Published 1914!
If you are the
first to bid on this auction, using the buy-it-now option, YOU WIN! There is no
chance of being outbid! DON'T WAIT!
Up for your
consideration is a CD REPUBLICATION of The Priscilla Basketry Boon No. 1!"
This book was originally published in New York by the American Reedcraft
Corporation, dated 1924! (Original is NOT for sale)
This HISTORIC book
contains 33 pages of instructions, diagrams, designs and fundamentals for
creating baskets using various weaving techniques and materials.
A multitude
of ANTIQUE basket weaving
designs and instructions are included! You will also find many historical facts
on this ancient craft as well as various tables of RARE and UNIQUE guidelines to
assist along the way!
Here is an OLD,
resourceful and exceptional basket
reed weaving instructional and design CD REPUBLICATION. These instructions are
characteristic of the basket crafts done by our lady ancestors
in several different cultures! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own
version of another wonderful craft book revealing our heritage from early
America!
CONTENTS:
Lessons
in Basketry
Introduction
A Reed
Basket
A Flower
Bowl
"Used for Violets, Hair
Receivers or Catch-alls."
A Hanging
Basket
Card Basket
A Lacework
Basket
Different
Weavings
Double
Weaving
In Pairing
Double
Pairing
Scalloped
Basket
Carrying
Baskets
"For Marketing,
Picknicking, and Flower Gathering
Reed Lamp for the
Library Table
Description of Weaves,
Bases, and Borders
Tools
Pairing
Japanese
Weave
Double Japanese
Weave
Triple Weave
Under and
Over
A Coil
Three-rod
Coil
To Lock the
Coil
Four-rod
Coil
Five-rod
Coils
Four-rod
Arrow
A Stroke
Three-rod
Arrow
Two-ply
Weave
Bellfonte
Weave
Mending
Indian
Centre
Simple Braided
Border
Comercial
Border
Flat Plaited
Border
To Connect up the
Border
Serving Tray with
Plaited Border 12 x 19
Inches
"Perhaps no other
article in basketry is as popular and satisfactory as a well-made serving tray
with flat plaited border."
Indian
Basketry
"...amount the
materials that Indians use for basketry are willows, rush, splint, tube root,
squaw weed, cedar bark, yucca fibre, palm leaves, split bamboo, cacti fibre,
pine needles, and sweet grass. The proper season for gathering most of these
materials is when..."
How to Imitate Indian
Baskets
Shape and
Design
Lazy Squaw
Stitch
Indian Stitches and
Designs
Hemstitch
Stitch
Figure Eight
Stitch
The Real Indian
Stitch
Covers and
Handles
Designs
A Daisy
Basket
A Charming
Flower-Basket #1
A Charming
Flower-Basket #2
Waste-Baskets
#1 without
Handles
#2 with
Handles
Hanging-Basket
An Artistic
Console-Table
How to Recane Old
Chairs
Octogonal
Mesh
General
Directions
Dyeing and
Staining
The antique and vintage
tools, canes, reeds, pine needles, etc., can be found on eBay quite
readily. You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, of course, you can utilize
contemporary tools and materials found at a near by fabric, craft or hobby
store, or your own backyard…
You will appreciate
the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for
many years to come. This information has been scanned into a CD-ROM REPUBLICATION using the
Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF format. You may download a FREE version of the Adobe
software program at www.adobe.com .
This is NOT a copy of another
CD-ROM. You will receive an ORIGINAL CD of this historic and resourceful book. The
text is viewed easily from your computer or you may choose to print each page
as you read this amazing cd republication on basketry construction. Every page has been
meticulously scanned, cleaned and burned to preserve this ANTIQUE book's
information and patterns to CD-ROM! The format of this resource has so many more
advantages than the original book.
What are the benefits
of an antique book CD republication?
* Every image
and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never
have to deal with any crumbling old paper!
* These scans
are completely sizable. You can enlarge and print according to your visual
needs!
* Each page is saved
in PDF format at a high dsi and is readily accessible using Adobe Acrobat (or other pdf
reading software programs). This program is very user friendly and allows you to print
any one specific page or the entire book!
* Each time you
want to use an image, a page or pages you can print it out. Every one will be as
crisp and clear as the last!
* If you spill your coffee, tea or soda on a page
you just print yourself another!
* You can put all of your notes or musings on your printouts and save
them in a folder for future referencing!
*Each CD-ROM
comes in a protective case!
Curious about
the quality of these scans? Please contact me and I will forward an image for
your own personal inspection! Scale it, edit it, print it to fit your needs and
you are surely going to be quite pleased with the results! You will appreciate
the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for
many years to come...
Check out my other
auctions for many other unique needlework ANTIQUE book CD REPUBLICATIONS of the same
or similar interest listed
for your creative
pleasure!
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