Baskets – style and substance

Highland Folk Museum.

Well, who knew there was so much to baskets? Helen Pickles describes and illustrates the variety of baskets in the Highland Folk Museum collections in her Blog article.

Types of baskets, purpose, materials and methods of construction are all covered- and even the wonderful names: creels, mudags, ciosans, crans, skeps, sculls, kishies and swales.

Follow this link to the Highlife Highland website to read her article in full.

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