The Material Culture of Basketry: Practice, Skill and Embodied Knowledge

This book celebrates basketry as a culturally significant skilled practice and as a theoretically rich discipline which has much to offer contemporary society. While sometimes understudied and underappreciated, it has much in common with mathematics and engineering, art, craft and design, and can also act as a socially beneficial source of skill and care.

Contributors show how local knowledge of materials, plants and place are central to the craft. Case studies include the skill in weaverbi...