Basket maker
A basket maker (or basket weavers ) is an artisanal producer and repairer of mostly of willow shoots woven baskets . Basket makers are trained in Germany today under the new job title of wickerwork designer .
history
In earlier times, many basket makers were also basket peddlers . Until they were increasingly being replaced by industrial products made of wire and plastic, tubular-woven baskets were a constantly required commodity in agriculture , in crafts and in households. Basket weaving was a classic emergency form of acquisition. Unless the rural population made their own baskets, they obtained them from migrating basket makers and basket peddlers. Sinti and Yeniche can therefore be found in this field of activity in Central Europe .
If one village had expired and the demand was exhausted, the next one was started. The raw material for the replenishment was found free in nature. Streams and rivers lined with willows formed the classic resource of the basket makers, who first had to soak the cut wicker rods in water in order to process them.
Nowadays, many basket weavers come to markets to get acquainted with their craft and to sell their products.
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"Kürschnerflechten", basket weaving in the fur trade (advert 1921, photo 2009)
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Others
In addition to Bürstenbinder u. the basket making trade was one of the first classic blind professions, but its importance has declined since the introduction of Braille .
The allegedly largest handmade basket vase in the world is in Almerswind in Thuringia.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Schalkau - Almerswind, Roth and Selsendorf. In: City of Schalkau. 2018, accessed August 17, 2019 .