Basketry and Basket Weaving Historic Book Collection on CD

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The Basketry and Basket Weaving Historic book collection is a great resource for people interested in the art and technique of basket making as it was practiced from the late-1800s to the early 20th century. The 31 books in this collection are a fascinating look at the beautiful creations made by Native American basket weavers along with a wide array of patterns and instructions to let you make a variety of wonderful basket designs for yourself. This heavily illustrated collection will be an excellent addition to your reference collection and provides numerous examples of of high quality knitting work that you can use for study or as guides for your own projects.

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The Basketry and Basket Weaving Historic book collection is a great resource for people interested in the art and technique of basket making as it was practiced from the late-1800s to the early 20th century. The 31 books in this collection are a fascinating look at the beautiful creations made by Native American basket weavers along with a wide array of patterns and instructions to let you make a variety of wonderful basket designs for yourself. This heavily illustrated collection will be an excellent addition to your reference collection and provides numerous examples of of high quality work that you can use for study or as guides for your own projects.

All the titles contained on this CD are listed below.

  1. Indian basket weaving (1903) - Navajo school of Indian basketry - 116 pages
  2. Weaving with paper rope (1922) - 40 pages
  3. Full instructions in the art of crepe paper rope basket weaving (1922) - 50 pages
  4. Basketry and weaving in the school (1904) - Pasch, Katharine - 36 pages
  5. The basketry book; twelve lessons in reed weaving (1914) - Blanchard, Mary Miles - 180 pages
  6. Raphia and reed weaving, including also cardboard and paper construction; a practical course for primary and elementary schools (1901) - Knapp, Elizabeth Sanborn - 140 pages
  7. Reed and raffia construction work in primary schools; a practical manual especially for primary-kindergarten teachers .. (1904) - Shults, Mary A. - 52 pages
  8. Cane Basket Work: A Practical Manual on Weaving Useful and Fancy Baskets (1901) - Annie Firth - 139 pages
  9. The basket maker (1909) - Turner, Luther Weston - 72 pages
  10. Practical and artistic basketry (1904) - Tinsley, Laura Rollins - 147 pages
  11. How to make baskets (1915) - White, Mary; Doubleday, Nelli Blanchan De Graff, - 258 pages
  12. Indian basketry. With 360 illustrations (1902) - James, George Wharton - 280 pages
  13. Inexpensive basketry (1912) - Marten, William Samuel - 52 pages
  14. More baskets and how to make them (1903) - White, Mary - 200 pages
  15. The pine-needle basket book (1911) - McAfee, Mary Jane - 52 pages
  16. A portfolio of designs for raffia basketry (1918) - Ashley, Gertrude Porter - 40 pages
  17. Practical basket making (1914) - James, George Wharton - 136 pages
  18. Practical basketry (1916) - Gill, Anna A - 216 pages
  19. The Priscilla basketry book a collection of baskets and other articles with lessons for working and directions for dyeing and staining (1911) - Fitzgerald, Sallie Garrison - 26 pages
  20. Raffia basketry as a fine art (1915) - Ashley, Gertrude Porter; Ashley, Mildred Porter - 73 pages
  21. How to make Indian and other baskets (1903) - James, George Wharton - 161 pages
  22. Basket making .. (1902) - Morse, T. Vernette - 44 pages
  23. How to make paper mach� baskets (1907) - Klatt, Herman - 32 pages
  24. Priscilla juniors' basketry book; (1914) - Fitzgerald, Sallie Garrison - 36 pages
  25. Pomo Indian baskets and their makers (1902) - Purdy, Carl - 56 pages
  26. Indian basketry, and How to make Indian and other baskets (1909) - James, George Wharton - 284 pages
  27. Aboriginal American basketry: (1904) - Mason, Otis Tufton; Coville, Frederick V. (Frederick Vernon) - 880 pages
  28. Basket-work of the North American aborigines - 158 pages
  29. Basket designs of the Indians of northwestern California (1905) - Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis) - 78 pages
  30. Alaska basketry (1917) - Cavana, Violet Virginia - 56 pages
  31. Basketry designs of the Indians of Northern California (1902) - Dixon, Roland Burrage - 122 pages

Here are some images from a few of the books:

This CD runs on all Windows and Macintosh computers. You must have a web browser and Adobe Acrobat Reader - (available for free download if you do not have it installed on your computer.) The book index is organized in an HTML menu that is compatible with all browsers and the books themselves are in PDF format to allow them to be universally accessed. Many books on this CD are searchable and printable.