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Straw Plaiting: Heritage Techniques for Hats, Trimmings, Bags and Baskets

By Veronica Main, Marian Nichols (Foreword by)
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$60.00
By Veronica Main, Marian Nichols (Foreword by)
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An engaging makers' guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams.

Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts' Red List.

This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques f...

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Crafts & HobbiesHistoryWorld HistoryNeedlework & Fiber ArtsFloral & Nature CraftsGeneral & Miscellaneous Crafts & HobbiesSocial & Cultural HistoryBasketryCrafts & Hobbies - General & MiscellaneousSocial History - General & Miscellaneous