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A more lightweight traditional looking shopping basket, made with bare white & natural brown willows. A version in colourful unpeeled willows is also available in the shop. If you are going to be 'the basket lady' (or man) about your town then make sure you've got a smart looking little number! 

L 17" x W 12" x H 8" - £38

This versatile basket is just as happy working at serving up bread or fruit as it is outside carrying tools & flowers.

L 17" x W 12" x H 4"  - £40

L 20" x W 14" x H 5" - £50

Rectangular Log/Storage Basket (Randed Weave)

Strong log stores of popular shape & style which can also be used as robust general storage baskets - 2 sizes are available in the shop woven in light brown/green natural willows. The slewed weave style is slightly lighter in weight than the randed weave style.

L 24" x W 16" x H 14.5" - £75

L 27" x W 19" x H 16.5" - £95

A practical shape for logs & kindling when you want the attractive round shape but long & narrower.  Made using two-tone natural brown willow colours.

L21" x W16" x H 13.5" - £55

L24" x W18" x H 16.5" -  £75

This tall basket helps to tidy the space around the front door. The handle has a certain amount of charm and makes picking it up with the brollies to hoover underneath a bit easier.

W 13" x H 22"

£50

A simple but sturdy willow bin made in a choice of dark or light brown natural willows. Please contact me first if you want the darker brown, the light brown is listed in the shop.

W 12" x H 11"

£26

Originally used for mussels in the fishing industry, this basket style makes a substantial and attractive wastepaper bin. This style works well as either a basket for kindlers or a basket to store your wool. Made in peeled buff willows.

W 14.5" x H 14" - £45

Hanging out the washing is a lot more enjoyable when it's done using a white willow laundry basket - made in all stripped blonde coloured 'white' willows.

L 25" x W 18" x H 10.5" £50

A curved laundry basket with drop-in lid to gather together, or hide away, a heap of washing.- let the washing pile up in this shapely clothes basket

H 24"x W 20"

£95

A basket design useful for hanging up on a hook in the kitchen for holding bulbs of garlic or small onions. This basket also can be filled with fatballs and hung out for the birds.

H 18" x W 5.5"

£25

John makes accurate copies of a few traditional agricultural & industrial baskets of the British Isles. The specialised basketweaving materials used in their construction is scarce and the specific knowledge of how to make many of the industrial styles is widely being lost. In particular, John makes some of the traditional baskets used in UK coastal & fishing regions in bygone times. These attractive baskets are very sturdy and were designed for heavy usage carrying fish in occasional wet conditions.

Nowadays, most of the people who order these baskets do so simply because they like the look of them, others buy them because they have some memory of these baskets being used in their community.

Quarter Cran Herring Basket

An attractive UK basket design used to measure the quantity of the catch of herring at the same time as unloading the boats. a very traditional, almost iconic basketwork design of the British Isles that took many years of very hard work for me to learn how to make. Made in a variety of stripped and unpeeled willows along with some split hazel and oak on the sides.

H 15.5" x W 21.5"

£120

Made like the Quarter Cran above, this smaller style was used by fishermen to show a sample of their catch to merchants.

W 16" x H 12" - £75

This basket with stout white willows is traditional to UK apple growing regions such as here in the River Clyde valley. This strong basket with a thick rim was used by fruit merchants for apples and was given the name 'Covent Garden Sieve' after the famous fruit market - A unique storage basket option for shelving in your kitchen.

 W 17" x H 8.5" - £55

The oval willow basket style used for planting and harvesting potatoes in agriculture. Still a great choice for using today on the veggie patch or allotment.

L18" x W 13.5" x H 7" - £35