Inventarnummer
67/40
Beschreibung
This is a bundle of 45–50 strips of buff salix parpurea willow, also known as ‘dicks’, ‘dicky meadows’ and ‘Britanny Greens’, grown in Somerset. It is a species much prized by basketmakers. Buff willow is willow that has been boiled in water for eight hours and been stripped of its bark.
Physische Beschaffenheit
Willow
Bestandsgeschichte
This is a part of a small collection of basketmaking tools (67/32-67/40) used by the donor (William Brown), his father (James 'Joe' Brown, who worked for G. W. Scott and Sons, a basketmaking firm in London) and grandfather. Mr William Brown gives his address as the London Association for the Blind, which had a factory in Peckham and which employed blind men in the manufacture of baskets, knitting needles and injection moulded plastics., MERL 'Catalogue of baskets' form – 'NAME: Sample (WILLOWS) // Acc. No.: 67/40 // Group: CRAFTS. WOOD. BASKETS // Neg. no.: 60/9392 // Place of origin: Somerset. // Period in use: 1967 // DESCRIPTION // Materials: salix purpurea. Osiers or basket willows. Salix purpurea, believed to be Lancashire “Dicky Meadows” in origin pale buff. Approx. 45–50 strips. // Shape and construction: // Dimensions: 3’ 6” // Use: For fine work // Dialect names: Britanny Greens. // Distribution: // Additional notes:'
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