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Ed Rossbach: Practicing the World's Oldest Craft |
| Section: THE ARTS / CRAFT & DESIGN |
| Author: Cheryl White |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,293 Words, 14,418 Characters |
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Basketry is possibly the oldest craft still in existence. Although basket-making is among the most ephemeral of textile arts, some have endured even into modern times. Originally a craft born of need, basketry's functional duties have been replaced in our machine society by plastic and paper. Yet we preserve them in museums and collect baskets made by less-developed cultures as decoration or art objects. Because baskets have changed so little over time, as an unassuming sort of everyday object, they provide a tangible link with our past. Millennia-old methods of plaiting, twining, and coiling are still used today. And basketry, unlike most other crafts, has proven resistant to production by machine.
Leading Fiber Artisan
Ed Rossbach has been interested in baskets and their cult...
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...as given them a new life quite apart from their material qualities, as well as a purpose replacing their lost functional attribute. In The Nature of Basketry, Rossbach writes, "The perishable thing which survives speaks most potently of time, of all time rather than the moment of its existence." He was speaking of historical baskets, but he could well have been referring to his own creations.
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