Author: STEPHENSON, SUE. H.
Title: Basketry of the Appalachian Mountains
Description: New York: Von Nostrand Reinholt, 1977. Softcover. ISBN: 0442279728. B & W ; 7 3/4 x 10 3/4"; 112 pages; Soft cover has white spine with black lettering. Covers have some bumping, rubbing, scuffing, sunning. Previous owner's name neatly written inside front cover. Pages are clean and tight, except for some bumping to bottom corners. Illustrated with b/w photographs and drawings. "...this book is a complete manual of the technology and history of basketry in the Appalachian Mounatins (and of basketry in New England and points west--wherever the early immigrants from the British Isles settled in the US. Quite distinct from the American Indian basketry, the craft tradition presented here can be traced to sources in the British Isles, Germany, Holland, Portugal and Spain, and has survived unbroken in the Appalachians since the arrival of the first settlers in the 18th century..." Index.. Very Good .

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