Basket Work of all Kinds - With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams

Paul N. Hasluck

Description

“Basket Work of all Kinds” is a 1912 work by Australian engineer Paul N. Hasluck. Within this book, Hasluck offers simple instructions and expert tips on making a range of beautiful and practical baskets. With simple diagrams and clear explanations, this volume is suitable for anyone with an interest in the handicrafts and basket weaving in particular. Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1854 – 1916) was an Australian engineer and editor. He was a master of technical writing and father of the 'do-it-yourself' book, producing many books on subjects including engineering, handicrafts, woodwork, and more. Other notable works by this author include: “Treatise on the Tools Employed in the Art of Turning” (1881), “The Wrath-Jobber's Handy Book” (1887), and “Screw-Threads and Methods of Producing Them” (1887). Contents include: “Tools and Materials”, “Simple Baskets”, “Grocer's Square Baskets”, “Round Baskets”, “Flat Fruit Baskets”, “Oval Baskets”, “Wicker Baskets”, “Doctors and Chemists Baskets”, “Fancy Baskets”, “Sussex Trug Baskets”, “Miscellaneous Baskets”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Sujets

• Basket weaving

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 16 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• EAN13: 9781528766494
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

BASKET WORK OF ALL KINDS
W ITH N UMEROUS E NGRAVINGS AND D IAGRAMS
EDITED BY
PAUL N. HASLUCK
Author of Handybooks for Handicrafts. etc. etc .
Copyright 2017 Read Books Ltd.
This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Paul Nooncree Hasluck

Paul Nooncree Hasluck was born in April 1854, in South Australia. The third son of Lewis Hasluck, of Perth, the family moved to the UK when Hasluck was still young. He subsequently lived in Herne Bay (Kent), before moving to 120 Victoria Street, London, later in life.
Hasluck was the secretary of the Institution of Sanitary Engineers - an organisation dedicated to promoting knowledge of, and development in the field of urban sanitation. Hasluck was also the editor of several magazines and volumes over his lifetime, including Work Handbooks , and Building World . He was an eminently knowledgeable and talented engineer, and wrote many practical books. These included such titles as; Lathe-Work: A Practical Treatise on the Tools employed in the Art of Turning (1881), The Watch-Jobber s Handy Book (1887), Screw-Threads , and Methods of Producing Them (1887), and an eight volume series on The Automobile as well as a staggering eighteen volumes of Mechanics Manuals .
In his personal life, Hasluck married in 1883, to Florence - and the two enjoyed a happy marriage, though his wife unfortunately died young, in 1916. Hasluck himself died on 7th May, 1931, aged seventy-seven.
Basket Making

A basket is a container traditionally constructed from stiff fibres, which can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane. While most baskets are made from plant materials, other materials such as horsehair, baleen, or metal wire can be used. Baskets are generally woven by hand. While basket weaving is one of the widest spread crafts in the history of any human civilization, it is hard to say just how old the craft is because natural materials like wood, grass, and animal remains decay naturally and constantly. Native Americans have been especially renowned for their basket-weaving techniques, used as trade-goods, but also for religious ceremonies. But without proper preservation, much of the history of basket making has been lost and now, can be merely speculated upon.
The oldest known baskets have been carbon dated to between 10,000 and 12,000 years old, earlier than any established dates for archaeological finds of pottery, and were discovered in Faiyum in upper Egypt. Other baskets have been discovered in the Middle East that are up to 7,000 years old.
The most common evidence of knowledge of basketry is an imprint of the weave on fragments of clay pots, formed by packing clay on the walls of the basket and firing. More recently, we have much better evidence of basket use - as during the industrial revolution, baskets were used in factories, and for packing deliveries. Wicker furniture more broadly was very popular in Victorian society, as woven pieces became fashionable with the upper-class and as a status symbol. Weaving further took off during the two World Wars, with thousands of baskets used for transporting messenger pigeons. There were also observational balloon baskets, baskets for shell cases and airborne pannier baskets used for dropping supplies of ammunition and food to the troops.
Basketry can be broadly categorised into four types:
1. Coiled Basketry - using grasses and rushes.
2. Plaiting Basketry - using materials that are wide and braid-like: palms, yucca or New Zealand flax.
3. Twining Basketry - using materials from roots and tree bark. Twining actually refers to a weaving technique where two or more flexible weaving elements cross each other as they weave through stiffer radial spokes.
4. Wicker, or Splint Basketry - using reed, cane, willow, oak and ash.
Weaving with rattan core (also known as reed) is one of the more popular techniques, largely because it is readily available. It is pliable and when woven correctly, very sturdy. Also, while traditional materials like oak, hickory, and willow might be hard to come by, reed is plentiful and can be cut into any size or shape that might be needed for a pattern. This includes flat reed, which is used for most square baskets; oval reed which is used for many round baskets; and round reed which is used to twine. Another advantage is that reed can also be dyed easily, to look like oak or hickory. The type of baskets that reed is used for are generally referred to as wicker baskets, although twining is also a technique used in most wicker baskets. These baskets can be used to store beer, goods, grain, and even in some sacrificing tribes, the heads of the sacrifice.
Today, accomplished basket makers are far and few between, the art having been relegated to a seldom-practiced, yet artisan past-time. Machinery and the industrial revolution have contributed to this decline, although a lessening in demand (i.e., other, chemical processes of making containers) has also contributed. Over time though, the skills of basket making have been used for functions as diverse as fish traps, matting, cooking pots, rucksacks, boats and even houses. In the UK, The Worshipful Company of Basketmakers exists to protect the trade; one of the Livery Companies of the City of London. It was constituted in 1569, and received its Royal Charter in 1937. The company s motto is: Let us love one another and it aims to be an inclusive, friendly and diverse organisation, effectively supporting the ancient craft of basket making, with all its historic traditions. We hope this book encourages the current reader to start basket-weaving themselves! Enjoy.
PUBLISHERS NOTE
T HIS treatise on Basket Work is issued in the confident belief that it is not only thoroughly practical and reliable, but is so simply worded that even inexperienced readers can understand it.
CONTENTS

I.-Tools and Materials
II.-Simple Baskets
III.-Grocers Square Baskets
IV.-Round Baskets
V.-Oval Baskets
VI.-Flat Fruit Baskets
VII.-Wicker Elbow-chairs
VIII.-Basket Bottle-casings
IX.-Doctors and Chemists Baskets
X.-Fancy Baskets
XI.-Sussex Trug Baskets
XII.-Miscellaneous Basket Work
Index
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1.-Screw-block
2.-Commander.
3.-Picking Knife
4.-Shop Knife
5.-Small Bodkin
6.-Large Bodkin
7.-Shears
8.-Flat Iron
9.-Yard Stick
10.-Cleave for Peeling Oslers
11.-Cleave Iron
12-15.-Cleaves for Splitting Osiers
16, 17.-Shave
18, 19.-Upright Shave
20.-Awl.
21.-Simple Round Basket
22.-Beginning Round Basket
23.-Foundation for Round Basket
24.-Method of Joining
25.-Twist
26.-Trellis Edge
27.-Simple Beginning for Basket
28.-Plaited Beginning for Basket.
29.-Beginning Oval Basket
30.-Finished Rope Edge
31.-Rope Edge: First Stage
32.-Rope Edge: Second Stage.
33.-Basket Bottom in Screw-block
34.-Simple Weaving
35.-Hooping Stakes
36.-Staking Basket Bottom
37.-Corner Stick
38.-Upsetting Sides of Basket
39.-Fixing Corner Stick
40.-Piecing in Upsetting
41.-Weaving Sides of Basket
42.-Strainer
43.-Waling.
44.-Waling round Corner Sticks
45.-Side View of Bordering
46.-Top View of Bordering
47.-Cramming
48.-Bow for Basket
49.-Bordering Foot Rim
50, 51.-Lapping Handle Bow
52.-Round Slarth
53.-Working Tie-rods together
54.-Bottom of Round Basket
55.-Filling in Stakes
56.-Border for Round Basket
57.-Oval Slarth
58.-Slarth Rods in Position
59.-Tying Slarth
60.-Opening Bottom clicks
61.-Siding up Oval Linen Basket
62.-Bordering Oval Linen Basket
63.-Handle of Oval Linen Basket
64.-Turning Back Rod in making Handle
65.-Beginning Flat Basket
66.-Handle of Flat Basket
67.-Bordcring Corner of Flat Basket
68.-Bow and Scallom Rods
69.-Beginning Basket Lid
70.-Front of Basket Lid
71.-Piecing Bow
72.-Finishing Basket Lid
73.-Tying on Basket Lid
74.-Wicker Eibow-chair
75.-Lapping Scalloms on Bow
76.-Cut Butt End
77.-Weaving Chair Seat
78.-Working Sticks in Upsetting
79.-Staking Chair Seat
80.-Upsetting Foot of Chair
81.-Fetching
82.-Bending Tops of Fetch-rods
83.-Piecing Rod
84.-Piecing Fetching
85.-Fetches in Foot of Chair
86.-Bordering of Foot of Chair
87.-Bordering Round Chair Corner Post
88.-Finishing Bordering
89.-Cramming Down Stakes
90.-Bordering at Edge of Chair Seat
91.-Finishing Bordering
92.-Beginning Fetching
93.-Working Pair of Rods on Fetch-rods
94.-Beginning Second Fetch on Chair Back
95.-Crossing Stakes in Fetching
96.-Plaiting Border
97.-Bending Stakes in Plaited Border
98.-Splitting End of Rod
99.-Inserting Clean in Rod
100.-Finishing-off Chair Post
101.-Beginning Cap of Bottle-casing
102.-Working Strand round Bottle Neck
103.-Plan of Cap of Casing
104.-Part of Casing, showing Tap Opening
105.-Scallomed Rod
106.-Border on Bottle casing
107.-Handle on Bottle-casing
108.-Bordering Doctor s Basket
109, 110.-Working Bridge for Doctor s Basket
111.-Flap Lid for Doctor s Basket
112.-S