Fancy Penobscot Sweetgrass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicue Braiding Theli tote bag making me want to spend

making me want to spend the whole day playing

and the dynamism of the whole thing

Just lovely

The walls of this bowl are thick

Fancy Penobscot Sweetgrass and Ash Splint Basket with Curlicue Braiding Theli tote bag making me want to spendI am completely enchanted by this basket! Woven of sweetgrass and dyed ash splint, I am pretty certain it is Penobscot (Maine Native), likely c. 1920's 40's, and is definitely one of the finest I have seen. The lid features a striking interplay of thin splint strips and braided sweetgrass woven over thicker orange splints, but it is the sides that really make this basket, with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops