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Basketmaking: Orkney Chair

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1295

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Basketmaking: Orkney Chair

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1295

Creator(s): Malden, John

Site Location(s): Subject - Flushdyke, Ossett, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 53.6898, -1.58752 )

Date(s): October 1971

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412235

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

View of workshop at Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire). Shows basket maker plaiting the decorative border of an Orkney chair in the background, and soaked willows being kept damp for use in the weaving in the foreground. Mounted on Photo File card. Card 11 in a series of 11.


Originally held in Photo File: Woodcrafts - Brushes, Baskets, Walking Sticks.

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