Basket

A basket is a woven container, usually made of wood, flexible material, transport and storage of loads or material. Basketry is the collective term for goods that are produced by the basket weavers.

Material

Baskets or wicker are braids of rods, branches, split wood, rattan, bamboo, esparto ( Esparto and Halfagras ), reed or palm leaf ribs. The most common material for basket weaving willow branches are specially planted for this purpose osier.

As baskets but also containers of plastic or wire mesh are next referred to, if they remember in form or function of wicker.

Basket Weaving

The working material

The one-year Weidenschößlinge which have been hulled or unhulled (but then only for large baskets ) are processed, are cut annually at a height of 1 to 1.5 m.

If you want to peel them, so it is pulled in the fresh state by an elastic wooden or iron clamp ( clamp) and then solves the ruptured bark from. After peeling, the rods are dried as quickly as possible to the air and sun, so that they retain their white color. By soaking in water they receive their original flexibility again and are then ready for weaving.

For very fine work cleaving the rods in three or four rails. This is done with the shredders ( also Klöber ), a slightly conical stilted piece of hard wood that is cut from the center up to the upper thin end so that there are three or four wedge-shaped, like forming beams from a center expiring cutting. The tail is cut at the thick end with the carvers, the thriller so placed on the rod that his wedges occur in the cuts, and continued pushed to the other end. To transform the tripartite split pieces into smooth rails it is pulled repeatedly through the basket makers planing and then through the Narrow to trim the side edges and to make all the tracks of the same width.

The Flechtarbeit

During the braiding itself to craft the first floor of the basket and then the side walls. This is done on a simple frame of the machine, on which the floor is mounted. Rectangular baskets are woven on wooden forms. Also widespread is the fabrication of the chip baskets of ribbon-like, split spruce and Kokskörbe berindetem from spruce wood and wicker. The finer baskets are bleached, painted, dyed, formerly often bronzed or gilded.

Intermediate step

Braided basket in an archaeological treasure

Finished baskets

History of Basketry

Remnants of a fabricated in Wulsttechnik basket from the time around 10,000 BC, archaeologists found in the Middle East. 5000 years counting grave goods into basket shapes were found in 1857 in a cave in southern Spain. In the Neolithic pile dwellings on Lake Neuchâtel in Auvernier was found wicker baskets. Also native to Central Europe Celts dominated this ancient craft.

Home was conceived in the extinction basketry production in Germany in Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dresden, in the Rhön, in Bamberg and in Schmalkalden. They provided particularly finer plaiting. The headquarters of working for export basketry industry was located in the area of ​​the Upper Main, near Coburg, near Lichtenfels am Main and in the Fichtelgebirge. In the Erzgebirge (volume at Black Mountain ) especially chip baskets were made. In Lichtenfels there is still a technical school for basketry. The modern Job Title basket makers is Flechtwerkgestalter ( in )

In many cases, the blind have been trained in basket weaving, in order to contribute to the livelihood in special homes.

Wickerwork

The Basketry includes a variety of shapes of baskets. In addition, still exist furniture, strollers, chandeliers, carpet beater, picture frames and numerous fancy goods, which are produced in the Korbflechttechnik. Beehives were made ​​in Wulsttechnik wicker.

One used to fish basket called Chartreuse.

Balloon basket:

The transport container under the gas and hot air balloons are in the majority today of woven basket material. Firstly, they are therefore very easily and on the other they deform by the elasticity at the landing and do not break equal to two. Thus, one can start again. Balloon baskets can hold up to 16 people.

Sayings

• To phrase someone give a basket see main article in a basket give.
• The term ' hush, hush in the basket ", with which you want to bring children into bed quickly, thus refers to the basket in which a domestic dog or a house cat sleeps.
• Also from the animal kingdom comes the term " cock of the walk ", which refers to a man who is in predominantly female company. Because, mostly was just a rooster in the henhouse or in the basket in which the chickens were taken to the market, this phrase originated.