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Basketmaking: Orkney Chair

Malden, John

October 1971

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 d...

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Soaking Tanks (Basketmaking)

Aston, Michael Geoffrey

1964

Tanks for soaking sticks of willow and cane before they are worked into baskets, and bundles of willow, at Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire).

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Willow-Growing and Basket-Making in Mawdesley, Lancashire

Blackburn, Margaret

1978

M.A. study of the willow-growing and basket-making industry in Mawdesley, Lancashire. Volume One outlines the history and organisation of the industry, and details working conditions, the training of ...

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