Most books found in the crafting section of your local bookshop offer lessons on making, but few will give you the opportunity to re-emerge as a keystone species entangled into the web of life you’ve always belonged to. Wild Basketry by artist-maker Ruby Taylor does both.

Weaving wisdom gathered through decades of creation in collaboration with the living world, the author offers detailed instructions on ancestral basket harvesting and creation. Prefacing her guidance are pages of sage observation and discovery on basketry as an act of reciprocity that can fill the cracks colonial ...

 

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