Daily AncestorBasket-maker
A basket-maker wove baskets, and sometimes mats and furniture, from willow, splints, cane or other pliable materials.
Basketry can be made from almost anything that bends: willow, oak and pine splints, straw, grasses, vines and more. It is one of the most widespread crafts in human history, practiced as a rural trade and by many Indigenous peoples known for their own basket-weaving traditions.
Basket makers and basket weavers mean the same thing.
As seen in a recordOccupation column of the 1850 to 1930 census
Jacob Fass, 60, Basket maker
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