How to Make Baskets. With a Chapter on "What the Basket Means to the Indian," by Neltje Blanchan
by White, Mary
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo. 8vo. xi (i), 194 (4) pp. with b&w illustrations. Reprinted with an essay by Neltje Blanchan, 1913. Slight age-toning to boards and text block edges with minimal external wear, else Pristine Interior. No markings, tight binding, pages clean and white. 5.25" x 7.5". Tan cloth with basket on front board, and black lettering g to front board and spine. preface, list of b&w illustrations, list of figures, I. Materials, Preparation, Weaving; II. Raffia and Some of Its Uses; III. Mats and Their Borders; IV. The Simplest Baskets; V. Covers; VI. Handles; VII. Work Baskets; VIII. Candy Baskets; IX. Scrap Baskets; X. Bird's Nests; XI. Oval Baskets; XII. The Finishing Touch; XIII. How to Cane Chairs; XIV. Some Indian Stitches; XV. What the Basket Means to the Indian..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005396
- Title
- How to Make Baskets. With a Chapter on "What the Basket Means to the Indian," by Neltje Blanchan
- Author
- White, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- CRAFTS BASKET HOW-TO TWISTING AND WEAVING
- Size
- Octavo
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West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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