BasketMakers

I will use this journal to let you know about new site additions and news of importance to the basketry community. In addition I will use it to direct basket collectors to online and on-site auctions that include baskets and let basketmakers know about upcoming exhibits, lectures, demonstrations, festivals, markets, conferences, master workshops and other basketry events. At this point the journal is in development mode. Please excuse the dust while I attempt to learn how things work. Visit BasketMakers.com for the live environment.

Before Horticulture - "Women's most significant invention here, of course, is the idea of horticulture itself--bringing favored food plants to grow in appropriate areas near the camp instead of foraging where they grew by chance. Two very early physical inventions underlying this major invention-often and rightly called the most significant single invention in human history--are the digging stick and the carrying basket (or other carrier or container)." Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and daughters of invention : notes for a revised history of technology. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. 1995.