Straw Plaiting

Heritage Techniques for Hats, Trimmings, Bags and Baskets

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

An engaging makers’ guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams.Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts’ Red List.This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting.For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-17
Mått:280 x 30 x 220 mm
Vikt:1 570 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Medarbetare:Marian Nichols
ISBN:9781789940756

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Veronica Main is the most experienced traditional straw plaiter in the UK. For more than 40 years she has rigorously researched the industries of the UK, Europe and the United States, unlocking information and learning how to recreate plaits using authentic techniques. She was awarded an MBE in the 2021 New Year's Honours list for her services to Straw Hat Plaiting and Endangered Crafts Skills.Heritage Crafts is the national charity for traditional heritage crafts in the UK, founded in 2009 to support and promote heritage crafts as a fundamental part of our living heritage. www.heritagecrafts.org.uk

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This impressive and thoroughly researched book traces the journey of straw from farmer’s field to finished hat. Veronica Main has covered the subject in depth with good illustrations, and the clearly drawn patterns show the many ways straw can be plaited ... we should now make more use of it as a renewable resource.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsForeword by Marian NicholsIntroductionTerminology1. Straw Plaiting in Great Britain2. Straw Plaiting in the Atlantic Islands and North America3. Straw Plaiting in Europe4. The Decline of the Straw Plaiting Industry5. Plaiting Materials6. Straw Preparation7. Tools of the Trade8. Development of Plait Patterns9. Preparing to Plait10. Plait InstructionsThree, Five and Seven End PlaitsNine and Eleven EndsBasic PlaitsRustic PlaitsPiping and PorcupinePurl and MossBatwing or VandykeFeather and WispDiamond and WaveBrilliantTrimmingsEndnotesConversion TablesGlossaryBibliographyPicture CreditsIndex