noun
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the art or practice of making baskets
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baskets collectively
Etymology
Origin of basketry
Example Sentences
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"Maybe for textile work, leather work or basketry - they're pulling something through their front teeth."
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2024
But while looking through all the other basketry included — some of it quite engaging on its own terms, some not — I found myself getting increasingly annoyed with the exhibition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
“Humans are very adept at using fire for land management … to create mosaic habitats, to create the right kinds of materials for basketry, for harvesting grasshoppers, for hunting strategies.”
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 16, 2023
With hundreds of handcrafted gift items from jewelry to wood arts, basketry to weaving, it’s an annual celebration of the creativity that happens at BARN.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
When placed about the rim or base, these fillets are often indented with the finger or an implement in a way to imitate, rudely, a heavy twisted cord—a feature evidently borrowed from basketry.
From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by William Henry Holmes
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