Straw Plaiting
Heritage Techniques for Hats, Trimmings, Bags and Baskets
Publisher: Herbert Press
Date of Publication: 17 August 2023
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781789940756 |
| ISBN10: | 1789940753 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 336 pages |
| Size: | 280x216 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | Step-by-step colour illustrations |
| 638 |
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'A must-have for anyone interested in working with straw and an astonishing contribution to the preservation of this endangered craft.' Jay Blades MBE, Co-Chair of Heritage Crafts
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This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting.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.
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This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting.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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Marian Nichols
Introduction
Terminology
1. Straw Plaiting in Great Britain
2. Straw Plaiting in the Atlantic Islands and North America
3. Straw Plaiting in Europe
4. The Decline of the Straw Plaiting Industry
5. Plaiting Materials
6. Straw Preparation
7. Tools of the Trade
8. Development of Plait Patterns
9. Preparing to Plait
10. Plait Instructions
Three, Five and Seven End Plaits
Nine and Eleven Ends
Basic Plaits
Rustic Plaits
Piping and Porcupine
Purl and Moss
Batwing or Vandyke
Feather and Wisp
Diamond and Wave
Brilliant
Trimmings
Endnotes
Conversion Tables
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
Foreword by Marian Nichols
Introduction
Terminology
1. Straw Plaiting in Great Britain
2. Straw Plaiting in the Atlantic Islands and North America
3. Straw Plaiting in Europe
4. The Decline of the Straw Plaiting Industry
5. Plaiting Materials
6. Straw Preparation
7. Tools of the Trade
8. Development of Plait Patterns
9. Preparing to Plait
10. Plait Instructions
Three, Five and Seven End Plaits
Nine and Eleven Ends
Basic Plaits
Rustic Plaits
Piping and Porcupine
Purl and Moss
Batwing or Vandyke
Feather and Wisp
Diamond and Wave
Brilliant
Trimmings
Endnotes
Conversion Tables
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
