"Basket Making for Fun and Profits" by Rudi Kütner-Kühne opens the doors to the world of sustainable and renewable materials, allowing readers to explore the ancient art of basket making. Unlike the modern manufacturing routes that often lead to environmental waste, Kühne's book empowers readers with a holistic view of materials as sustenance for humans and nature.
The author begins by exploring how nature has influenced the development of baskets all throughout history. He introduces various groups of people who have made unique contributions to basket making, including traditional tribes and indigenous peoples. Each section is accompanied by fascinating images and detailed instructions, offering readers the tools and techniques required to create their own baskets.
With this book, Kütner-Kühn highlights the importance of sustainability in basket making practices.
Электронная Книга «Basket Making for Fun & Profits» написана автором Ruediger Kuettner-Kuehn в году.
Минимальный возраст читателя: 0
Язык: Немецкий
ISBN: 9783742752178
Описание книги от Ruediger Kuettner-Kuehn
THE twisting and weaving of Nature's materials, grasses, twigs, rushes and vines, into useful and beautiful forms seems almost instinctive in man. Perhaps it came to him as the nest-weaving instinct comes to birds—for at first he used it as they do, in the building of his house. Later, shields and boats were formed of wicker work, but how long ago the first basket was made no one is wise enough to tell us. To-day Indian tribes in South America weave baskets from their native palms, South African negroes use reeds and roots, while the Chinese and Japanese are wonderful workmen in this as in other arts and industries; but basketry has come down to us more directly through the American Indian. Generations of these weavers have produced masterpieces, many of which are preserved in our museums, and the young basket maker need not go on long pilgrimages to study the old masters of his craft. Here at last, as in England, the value of manual training is being realized, and basketry is taking an important place; following the kindergarten and enabling the child to apply the principles he has learned there. He still works from the centre out, and weaves as he wove his paper mats, but permanent materials have replaced the perishable ones, and what he makes has an actual value.
