Definition of Basketry

1. Noun. The craft of basket making.

Generic synonyms: Craft, Trade

Definition of Basketry

1. n. The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

Definition of Basketry

1. Noun. The process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers to make a basket. ¹

2. Noun. baskets collectively ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Basketry

1. basket weaving [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Basketry

basketbrawl
basketcase
basketcases
basketed
basketeer
basketful
basketfuls
baskethouse
basketing
basketless
basketlike
basketmaker
basketmakers
basketries
basketry (current term)
baskets
basketsful
basketweave
basketweaver
basketweavers
basketweaving
basketwork
basketworks
basketworm
basketworms
baskimo
baskimos
basking
basking shark

Literary usage of Basketry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British North America by Charles Hill-Tout (1907)
"CHAPTER VI basketry AND BARK VESSELS IT has been found that basketry, notwithstanding its multifarious forms, falls naturally under two heads, according to ..."

2. The North-Americans of Yesterday: A Comparative Study of North-American by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1900)
"basketry and pottery are mother and daughter. Plaiting together straws or rushes was a simple operation and must have occurred to the most primitive tribes ..."

3. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"COILED basketry The relative frequency of ... basketry in Cliff-dweller and Basket Maker sites is best illustrated by the following statistics: our ..."

4. Some First Steps in Human Progress by Frederick Starr (1895)
"Art of basketry. Among Sacs and Foxes; Shoshones; Molds, etc. CHAPTER V. basketry AND ... ONE of the commonest of arts among the lower races is basketry. ..."

5. Arts of the World: Comparative Art Studies by Edwin Swift Balch (1920)
"The most distinctive feature of California art is the basketry work, ... While the basketry from Washington to southern California is of the same general ..."

6. Manual Training Magazine (1913)
"XXXIX, Part P. Indian basketry Studies in a Textile Art Without Machinery. ... Navajo School of Indian basketry, Indian Basket Weaving. ..."

7. Reconstruction Therapy by William Rush Dunton (1919)
"AN ABRIDGED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRAFT BOOKS basketry Ashley, Gertrude and Millicent. ... James, GW Indian basketry and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets. ..."

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