A Modern Approach to Basketry With Fibers and Grasses, Using Coiling, Twining, Weaving, Macrame, Crocheting

ix, 246 p., [4] leaves of plates : illus. (some col.) ; 27 cm. ; ISBN 0517515881 ; LCCN 74077482 ; LOC no TT879.B3 M44 1974 ; Dewey 746.4/1 ; OCLC 1092698 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; "Dona Z. Meilach has an uncanny ability for selecting and presenting iron so that people can better appreciate what they are viewing. She has written over fifty-five inspirational art books, scores of articles on sculpture in many media, and lives in Carlsbad, California. " ; Views basket weaving as an art form and details the use of coiling, twining, macrame, and crochet to create various containers. ; Contents: Basketry A modern art form -- Materials -- Sources and ideas for basketry forms and designs -- Coiling : The sampler -- Lady squaw stitch -- Figure eight stitch -- Lace stitch -- Adding beads -- Adding weft and splicing core -- Adding colors -- Adding feathers -- Finishing end of coil -- Shaping -- More wrapoping methods -- More ways to begin a coil -- Imbrication -- The Buttonhole or blanket stitch -- Double split stitch -- Embroidery -- Knotless netting or looping -- Exposed core -- Added elements -- Assembling parts -- Additional ideas for basket coiling for sculptural and other forms -- A gallery of basketry examples -- Coiled jewelry -- Twining -- Simple twining and variations -- How to develop a twined basket -- Weaving -- Basic weaving procedures -- Macrame -- The clove hitch -- Verticle clove hitsch -- Square knotting -- Crochet -- For your information -- Suppliers -- Index. ; artwork: Gayle Luchessa, Eileen Barnard, Steve Brixner, marie Waters, Louise Robbins, Royce Zimon, Linda Ann Valeri, Geoff Welch, Lew Gilchrist, Joan Austin, Gary Trentham, Jean Lamon, Bonnie Zimmer, Gyongy Laky, Kathryn McCardle, Budd Stainaker, Suellen Glashausser, Lucy Traber, Molly Baross, kathy Malec, Helen Hennessey, Helen Gilling, Joan Sterrenberg, Julie Connell, Renie Adams, Pat Malarchar, Mary Lou Higgins, Ferne Jacobs, I. Richard Daehnert, Pat Williams, Budd Stainaker, Gladamay Henrikson, David F. Silverman, Mary Baughn, Doris Hoover, Gwynne Lott, Stana Coleman, Barbara Kincaid, Jan Cohen, Lucy H. Traber, Debbie F. Dunn, Jean Singerman-Weiss, Carol Danley, Lucele Counts, Virginia H. Barber, Frank Kong, Ruby Conaway, Gloria Bornstein, Jan Mjelde Wader, Libby Platus, Lucelle Coutts, Wolfram Krank, Joyce Barnes, Dee Nemeth, Lillian Donald, Theo Ho, Diane Sheehan, Diane Itter, Rubin Steinberg, Lori Kratovil, Teri Holdcraft, Esther Gotthoeffer, Judith I. Kleinberg, Pamela Stearn ; FINE.…