basket-work

They made boats of basket-work, covered with the skins of animals, but seldom, if ever, ventured far from the shore.

A Child's History of England 2007

They were clever in basket-work, as savage people often are; and they could make a coarse kind of cloth, and some very bad earthenware.

A Child's History of England 2007

And then cheap things of gas and basket-work made an end of them altogether, smiting out of the sky! ...

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

It is said that the hair of animals is added; but the sides of the cone are woven something like basket-work.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

There are shelters where the men can keep warm and there are periodical classes in carpentering, boot-making, leather-work, handloom-weaving, basket-work, sea-grass work, etc., etc.; the idea being that the men can make furniture and so forth, not for sale but for their own homes, getting tools free and materials cheaply.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

The basket-work of the Bubis is of a superior order: the baskets they make to hold the palm oil are excellent, and will hold water like a basin, but I am in doubt whether this art is original, or imported by the Portuguese runaway slaves, for they put me very much in mind of those made by my old friends the Kabinders, from whom a good many of those slaves were recruited.

Travels in West Africa 2003

The Fan basket-work is strongly made, but very inferior to the

Travels in West Africa 2003

During the day women and children are to be seen sitting here, with small piles of grain upon little plaited trays of basket-work.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

The principal ornaments are basket-work bottles, gaily adorned with beads, cowris, and stained leather.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003

And in order to prevent any Kruboy being carried off as a slave by mistake, which would have prejudiced these useful allies, the slavers persuaded them always to tattoo a band of basket-work pattern down their foreheads and out on to the tip of their broad noses: this is the most extensive bit of real tattoo that I know of in West Africa, and the Kruboys still keep the fashion.

Travels in West Africa 2003