Woven Garden Basket

It is easy to imagine someone, long ago, gathering a harvest from their garden or strolling to the market with this beautiful basket tucked under their arm. Hand-woven of young willow branches and twine, the basket has an oblong body with a deep interior and a strong rim of bent tree branches, reinforced with iron banding and thin willow strips. A slender bentwood handle arches high over the basket, burnished smooth to the touch from years of use.