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Nantucket Lightship Baskets
by Katherine Seeler
The history of The Nantucket Lightship Basket is described and illustrated in primarily black and white photos. Brief description of construction, but not step by step instructions. Hardcover.

Natural Baskets
by Maryanne Gillooly (Editor)
More than 20 projects, with some suitable for the novice basketmaker, covering techniques of weaving, twining, coiling, braiding and stitching of natural materials gathered from gardens, fields and woods. Paperback.

Navajo Ceremonial Baskets
by Georgianna Kennedy Simpson
Illustrated with over 100 full color photographs of baskets and weavers. The book includes portraits of award-winning basket weavers and their work.

New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters Exhibit Catalog
by Joe Earle (Author)
New Bamboo is the world's first exhibition devoted exclusively to Japanese bamboo as a sculptural medium, featuring 23 innovators, old and young, who explore to the full the tension between traditional skill and new expressive opportunities.

North by Northeast:
Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora Traditional Arts
by Kathleen Mundell (Paperback) Released August 31, 2008. Folklorist Kathleen Mundell has been working with Native American traditional artists for over fifteen years. Her collaboration with Maine's Native American basketmakers resulted in a multi-tribal effort to preserve the ash basketry tradition and in the creation of the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance. North by Northeast will also include contributions by Salli Benedict (Mohawk), Sue Ellen Herne (Mohawk), Theresa Secord (Penobscot), and Lynne Williamson (Mohawk heritage).

Old New England Splint Baskets
by John McGuire
Black Ash woodsplint basketry of Old New England is explained in detail. Identification, selection and preparation of materials, as well as step-by-step instructions are well illustrated with color photography. Photo essay of historic examples is an excellent resource. Paperback.

	Osier Culture and Basket-making by Patrick Smyth 095181530X A study of the basket-making craft in South West County Antrim (Paperback)

Panamint Shosone Basketry: An American Art Form
by Eva Slater
Great Basin basketry of the Panamint, or the Koso who lived in California’s Death Valley in the early history of the state is showcased as a significant art form of California’s northern desert. Volume is illustrated with photographs taken over the past one hundred and fifty years.

Papermaking for Basketry and Other Crafts
by Lynn Stearns
Learn how to gather natural materials, make paper and use it to embellish or weave your baskets.
Paperback.

Papermaking With Plants
by Helen Hiebert
Use your own home grown or collected plant materials to make paper to weave a basket with the step-by-step illustrated instructions in this book. Hardcover.

Pine Needle Basketry: From Forest to Finished Project
by Judy Mofield Mallow
The beginner in coil basketry will find instruction on technique, tools and materials. For the more advanced, more challenging projects pictured in color. Hardcover.

Pine Needle Raffia Basketry
by Jeannie McFarland
Basic instructions, designs and stitch instructions for coiled pine needle baskets. Paperback.

Plaited Basketry: The Woven Form
by Shereen LaPlantz
Instructional text will teach you to create plaited baskets and surface decorations. Ample information on harvesting and preparing natural materials for basketry.

Plaited Basketry with Birch Bark
by Vladimir Yarish, Flo Hoppe, Jim Widess
The noted Russian birch bark basketmaker Vladimir Yarish has collaborated with two accomplished American basketmakers to write this new book about birch bark basketry.

Pyrography Designs
by Norma Gregory
A collection of floral, animal and other designs that you can use for your wood burning projects even if you can't draw well yourself. Paperback.

Row Upon Row: Sea Grass Baskets of the SC Lowcountry
by Dale Rosengarten. Details sweetgrass basketmaking from its roots in Africa through its development on the rice plantations to its current renaissance as an art form sought after by collectors and tourists. Paperback.