Straw Plaiting

Heritage Techniques for Hats, Trimmings, Bags and Baskets

Veronica Main (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2023
Herbert Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78994-075-6 (ISBN)

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An engaging makers’ guide to the history and craft of straw plaiting, brimming with helpful step-by-step diagrams.

Straw plaiting has been used to make accessories from hats and baskets to handbags, trimmings and homewares around the world for centuries. Once employing tens of thousands of people in the UK alone, the craft is now listed as Critically Endangered on Heritage Crafts’ Red List.

This book aims to change that, drawing on more than 50 previously unpublished patterns and techniques from around the world that will help you to unlock the history and preserve the skills of straw plaiting.

For each pattern, follow the step-by-step diagrams and instructions and discover how they were developed whilst learning about materials, tools and preparation. Once familiar with the plaiting techniques – using straw as well as other materials – you will be able to develop your own skills, possibly blending in recycled materials, which are increasingly being used to produce beautiful and unique pieces.

Veronica Main is the most experienced traditional straw plaiter in the UK. For more than 40 years she has rigorously researched the industries of the UK, Europe and the United States, unlocking information and learning how to recreate plaits using authentic techniques. She was awarded an MBE in the 2021 New Year's Honours list for her services to Straw Hat Plaiting and Endangered Crafts Skills. Heritage Crafts is the national charity for traditional heritage crafts in the UK, founded in 2009 to support and promote heritage crafts as a fundamental part of our living heritage. www.heritagecrafts.org.uk

Acknowledgements
Foreword by Marian Nichols
Introduction
Terminology
1. Straw Plaiting in Great Britain
2. Straw Plaiting in the Atlantic Islands and North America
3. Straw Plaiting in Europe
4. The Decline of the Straw Plaiting Industry
5. Plaiting Materials
6. Straw Preparation
7. Tools of the Trade
8. Development of Plait Patterns
9. Preparing to Plait
10. Plait Instructions
Three, Five and Seven End Plaits
Nine and Eleven Ends
Basic Plaits
Rustic Plaits
Piping and Porcupine
Purl and Moss
Batwing or Vandyke
Feather and Wisp
Diamond and Wave
Brilliant
Trimmings
Endnotes
Conversion Tables
Glossary
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2023
Vorwort	Marian Nichols
Zusatzinfo	Step-by-step colour illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Handwerk
ISBN-10	1-78994-075-3 / 1789940753
ISBN-13	978-1-78994-075-6 / 9781789940756
Zustand	Neuware