'Basketry and Weaving with Natural Materials' is to help beginners and advanced students of basketry move away from the regular look of mass-produced (even though hand-made) baskets from China and the Philippines and create their own adventurous shapes and forms. Pat Dale uses the irregular forms of such readily available plants as wisteria, palm, red-hot poker, iris, bulrush, hawthorn, ivy and willow - it is amazing what can be used and where it can be found.
Clear descriptions take the reader through simple basketry weaving techniques to making sculptured pieces, woven wall pieces, braiding, melon and coil baskets. The information is straightforward and the techniques simple, to encourage readers to develop their own solutions as they progress.
