Basket, Straw and Rope-Work

Description

This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Basket-Makers of Sutton-on-Trent' , 'The Nottinghamshire Countryside', volume II, number 5 (July 1948), (3 leaves); John Malden's ms. notes on basketmaking at Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire) (1971), ([6] leaves); J. E. Manners' articles on trug-basket makers in Sussex, extracted from 'Country Life' (4 November 1971), p. 1224, and on spale baskets made in Furness, extracted from 'Country Life' (19 April 1973), pp. 1091-1092; a copy of Stewart Sanderson's article, 'Paper for Making Ropes', reprinted from 'Scottish Studies', volume 4, part 1 (1960), pp. 117-120; a typed memo on Sam Hanna's film on rope-making, filmed at Outhwaite's Ropemakers, Hawes (ca. 1962/1963); Celia Davies' article, 'Knowing the Ropes: The Growth of an Ancient Industry', extracted from 'Country Life'
(5 October 1972), pp. 839-840; J. E. Manners' articles on ropemaking by hand, extracted from 'Country Life' (13 November 1973), p. 741, and the craft of besom-making, extracted from 'Country Life'(2 September 1971), p. 580; Maurice de Soisson's article, 'Taming the Great Ouse Floods' , on the use of mattresses in the Fens, extracted from 'Country Life' (5 October 1967), pp. 802-803; and John L. Jones's article, 'From Rush Lights to Table Mats: A Fenland Harvest', extracted from 'Country Life' (28 September 1972), pp. 745-747. The file also includes mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life', the 'Sunday Times', the 'Sheffield Star and Telegraph' and the 'Yorkshire Post', on trug baskets; heather rope (or gad rope); the rope-walk at Newton Abbot, Devon; ropemaking at Outhwaite's, Hawes; a brushmaker's sign; hedging and hedging tools; and corn-dollies, including those made by George T. S. Harrison of Driffield. Many of the cuttings are largely illustrative.


File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

There are no access restrictions on items in the Folk Life File.

Material in this collection is in copyright. Photocopies or digital images can only be supplied by the Library for research or private study within the terms of copyright legislation. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain the copyright holder's permission to reproduce for any other purpose. Guidance is available on tracing copyright status and ownership.

Related material

Photographic images relating to rope-making and woodcrafts are held in the Photo File (LAVC/PHO/P). Ropemaking photographs are held at LAVC/PHO/P1227 -1277, and include photographs taken at Outhwaite's Ropemakers in Hawes (see LAVC/PHO/P1234 -1268).


Photographs relating to the manufacture of brushes, baskets and walking sticks are held at LAVC/PHO/P1279-1297. These include John Malden's photographs (listed under Associated Material), and photographs of the brushmaker featured in Sam Hanna's film on brushmaking, possibly taken from stills (see LAVC/PHO/P1283 -1284).


Photographs of corn-dollies are held at LAVC/PHO/P1575 -1576.



Photographs and an audio-recording made by John Malden at Burdekin's Basketmakers, Ossett, and accompanying his ms. notes, are held at LAVC/PHO/P1285 -1295, and LAVC/SRE/A580 .


Other papers by Stewart Sanderson are held with Institute Staff Papers at LAVC/STA/1. Papers by Sanderson are also held in the Folk Life File, and photographs by him in the Photo File. For a list of these items see LAVC/STA/1 (Associated Material).

Related records in our catalogue

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LAVC/PHO/P1289: Basketmaking: Laundry Basket

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LAVC/PHO/P1290: Basketmaking: Laundry Basket

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LAVC/PHO/P1291: Basketmaking: Orkney Chair

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