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    The Mad Weave Book: An Ancient Form of Triaxial Basket Weaving
    The Mad Weave Book: An Ancient Form of Triaxial Basket Weaving
    The Mad Weave Book: An Ancient Form of Triaxial Basket Weaving
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    The Mad Weave Book: An Ancient Form of Triaxial Basket Weaving

    By Shereen LaPlantz

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    Most basket weaves are created on two axes but the triaxial method — also known as mad weaving — is formed on three axes for a strong and distinctive fabric that lends itself well to color patterns. Mad weaving has been practiced around the world for generations, from Asia to South America, but there are only a handful of instructional books on the subject. This detailed, easy-to-follow guide reintroduces the traditional craft to modern hand weavers with instructions for many different basket patterns.
    Author Shereen LaPlantz, an accomplished weaver and instructor, experimented for several years before developing a streamlined approach to making mad weave baskets. She begins with the basics, advancing to examples of color patterns, shaping, double weave, and surface embellishments, and she concludes with tips for finishing touches, from handles and lids to feet and reinforcements. Every step is accompanied by a clear diagram. Readers will delight in this guide's tremendous variety of patterns and find inspiration in its helpful suggestions and examples.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9780486812090
    The Mad Weave Book: An Ancient Form of Triaxial Basket Weaving

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      Book preview

      The Mad Weave Book - Shereen LaPlantz

      Sumba basket from Mary Lou Reichard's collection.

      photo credit: David L. Chapman

      THE

      Mad Weave

      BOOK

      AN ANCIENT FORM OF TRIAXIAL BASKET WEAVING

      SHEREEN LAPLANTZ

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC

      MINEOLA, NEW YORK

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Crystal Dobbs, my assistant, deserves many thanks. She had the guts to jump into the dark room, without real training, and try printing the photos. Most of this book has been put together in pieces between trips. Crystal has held everything together, pasted copy, answered questions and pushed me back to thinking about the book. Her efforts have been primary to this book's completion.

      My husband, David, has again helped. He not only is generous about time—my being frazzled and the bed being covered with book pages being pasted. But he believes in me. When I fall apart, knowing I've bitten off too much this time, he puts me back together, telling me I can do it. Then he starts fixing the meals and cleaning the house, so I can concentrate completely. When the printing job is terrible and has to be refused, David's the one who points out my options and keeps me from falling apart.

      Finally I must thank my parents, Charles and Grace Buckland, again. This time Mom didn't come here to paste the book together. Instead, when I realized I didn't have enough basket examples to illustrate this book, Mom and Dad went shopping for me. They could only find mad weave baskets at a wholesale house. They convinced the owners their daughter was desperate, and bought baskets—at wholesale quantities! Next they borrowed my brother's camper so they could drive the baskets up here, there were too many to ship.

      I'm a person who likes to rely on myself. A book is too large and too complex a project for that attitude. Thank you, all of you. I couldn't do this without you.

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1984 by Shereen LaPlantz

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Press de LaPlantz, Bayside, California, in 1984.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: LaPlantz, Shereen, 1947–2003.

      Title: The mad weave book : an ancient form of triaxial basket weaving / Shereen LaPlantz.

      Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2016. | Reprint: Originally published: Bayside, California : Press de LaPlantz, 1984.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2015039661| ISBN 9780486806037 | ISBN 0486806030

      Subjects: LCSH: Basket making.

      Classification: LCC TT879.B3 L35 2016 | DDC 746.41—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015039661

      Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley

      80603001 2016

      www.doverpublications.com

      Photo credit: Shereen Laplantz, unless otherwise stated

      Illustration credit: Shereen LaPlantz

      Lay out credit: Crystal Dobbs

      TABLE of CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Basic Mad Weave

      The Base

      The Sides

      Corners

      Rules

      A Story

      Horizontal Mad Weave

      Color Patterns

      Color Diagrams

      A Digression

      Color Inlay

      Shaping

      Cones

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