Basket

Furnishing basket with skiver-edged rim, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1951.4473.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Description

Circular basket of black ash splint. Area about 1" in diameter at bottom is open hexagonal weave. Remainder has uprights that are 1/16" wide and weavers that are (.03"?) wide. Rim is edged with white skiver.

Notes

Made in the Mount Lebanon Church Family shop to "furnish" a sewing work stand, which would be fitted with very small baskets to hold needles and other sewing goods. Published in "Shaker Baskets & Poplarware, Vol. III" (1992).

New York Mount Lebanon

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