Handwritten signs lead to homes selling hand-crafted baskets and simple pottery; the local basketwork is particularly fine. From Wordnik.com. [Part one - La Paz and El Triunfo: from beaches and baskets to mines, music and marine park] Reference
A dozen or more canoes were beached along the mud flats; some of them dug-out trees, others of a kind of basketwork covered in skins. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
What about a set of metal basketwork balls, one inside the other?. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
Used for barrel hoops, basketwork, cabinetwork and interior of houses. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Most food was kept in a small tower shaped grain store usually made of basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom in our Lifetime] Reference
Also it can be made of a stronger material, such as bamboo or reed basketwork, or even a light metal. From Wordnik.com. [3.1 Cattle harness] Reference
Neither did they have any ceramic or pottery vessels, relying instead on items made from stone or basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Loreto and San Javier: From Sun, Sand and Snorkeling to Museums, Missions and Mountains.] Reference
Her lemon dressing-gown had been flung over a basketwork chair and he felt its towelling stuff between his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
Skill and effort in the basketwork and writing, though - just a truly alarming lack of judgement in the face department. From Wordnik.com. [It Came From the Baby Shower...] Reference
The interstices -- space however having been left for a door -- were filled up with willow or hazel saplings in the form of basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
Even less are we expected to describe the content of one of its galleries, where, possibly, superior basketwork has been displayed for many decades. From Wordnik.com. [Exhibitionship] Reference
In the center of the top storey was a huge old steam elevator with a basketwork shaft, which had once been used to tower the trolley cars below ground for storage. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
Philip ordered all the cooking pots brought from the kitchen, and set some of the volunteers to making rough timber boxes and basketwork platters for carrying earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
The little lug on its left side is made to look like basketwork, which makes me think the shape of the whole vessel might imitate a wicker or maybe leather container. From Wordnik.com. [Gopnik's Daily Pic: Cambodian Bronze] Reference
(The really-truly best were under the basketwork sofa.). From Wordnik.com. [The Motormaniacs] Reference
The interpretation of designs in basketwork, etc., is identical with the. From Wordnik.com. [Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917] Reference
In Fricktal a similar frame of basketwork is called the Whitsuntide Basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
He sat down on a white basketwork settee and blinked at her in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashion in Shrouds]
Review the CapEx plan for '09 again and how does the details on this basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Media Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
This bucket is not made of iron, but of basketwork, usually covered with leather or cloth. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
The bag usually carried by gins was neatly wove in basketwork and composed of a wiry kind of rush. From Wordnik.com. [Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2] Reference
The boy took the glass to a big stone filter covered with basketwork, and filled the measure to the brim. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference
The principal handicrafts of the region include basketwork, cane furniture, bamboo flower, mats and woodcarvings. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Thom wraps both audience and stage in a womblike oval surfaced in a handsome aubergine- stained basketwork of wood. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference
He therefore began to model rudely thin globular bowls with his own hands, dispensing with the aid of thongs or basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
It is in shape somewhat like a backgammon dice-box, formed of basketwork, and covered with a piece of the skin of the tapir. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
We were both lying down on a horizontal plate of basketwork; for Lord Roberts B had none of the elegant accommodation of a balloon. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
Sometimes they manufacture head-pieces, by stretching the cloth over a basketwork frame, to represent the heads of monkeys and other animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
She has been interested in bees for a long time and her first hives were basketwork skeps, the old, traditional hive, but she now uses the 'national hive'. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Mail news round-up] Reference
Most of these patterns are more or less plaitlike in arrangement, evidently suggested to the mind of the potter by the primitive marks of the old basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference
Once a week each of the girls, since there were seven of them, took a drive with the mother in the old basketwork chaise drawn by a very fat, very lumbering pony. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Soldier] Reference
" Duncan greeted him genially, gesturing toward one of the basketwork chairs. From Wordnik.com. [A Breath of Snow and Ashes]
Constantinople than elsewhere) the surface of the capital was simply covered with incised carving of foliage, basketwork, monograms, etc. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The trolley box was made of basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
Byzantine Italians in the basketwork capital of the twelfth century, (which. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
3 inches long and ½ inch wide at the broadest part, forming a basketwork of frost. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
They may be made of wood or clay or basketwork. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Japanese basketwork?. From Wordnik.com. [Exhibitionship] Reference
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