Basket Weaving
Baskets are mainly woven with bamboo or plant stems.
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Baskets in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China.
Read more about this topic: Chinese Folk Art
Famous quotes containing the words basket and/or weaving:
“Put all your eggs in the one basket and—WATCH THAT BASKET.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)