Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down the Basket

In an era when baskets served as basic containers for gathering, transporting, and storing goods, many settlers in the Central and Southern Appalachian mountain region found white oak the best material for basketmaking The forms and techniques that evolved as basketmakers selected, prepared, and wove this wood.
A special appreciation of white oak basketry as an important dimension of regional material culture. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including interviews with traditional basketmakers in the Central Appalachian region, Rachel Law and Cynthia Taylor establish a framework for classifying, comparing, and identifying Appalachian basketry forms. Showing how details of basket construction, technique, and style can be linked to specific makers, regions, and ethnic traditions,a resource essential for cultural historians, collectors, and craftspeople, three major types of white oak baskets rib, rod, and splitare carefully delineated in this book.
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