Hemp Antiquities

A beautiful 19th century American oak splint gathering basket with a bentwood handle and a banded rim. Gathering baskets like this were used to gather fruits, vegetables, flowers, an...

Large hand woven buttock basket. Splines and hand carved ribs of swamp birch with a fixed hickory loop handle. Early 20th century.

A beautiful large American stave woven splint basket from the 19th century, with a double rolled rim and a single swinging bentwood handle, attributed to G.W. Adams Gathering baskets like this were used to gather fruits, vegetables, flowers, and eggs from the farm. Rustic yet elegant, very good quality, made with exceptional craftsmanship, With its rustic presence and nice proportions, this antique American wicker basket will be a great addition to any room, perhaps used in a living room or bedroom, to store kindling or toys or in a kitchen or hallway, possibly for rolled hand towel storage...

Charming handcrafted Provincial French woven wire work basket, circa 1900. A well-executed nicely shaped 'pannier' with moveable handles and decorative loop...

Polychrome Mission pictorial basket with eagles and highly geometric bottom. Finely woven. Shows little if any use. Period: Last quarter of the 19th...

Wonderful 19th century food caddy basket with two compartments that are also used to serve. Turned woven bamboo with reed and wood. This type of food caddy is often associated with DIM Sum...

Basket making is an ancient and humble craft, but in the hands of a skilled weaver a simple willow basket can become a truly beautiful work of art. This bent handle basket was made i...

Travail de maitrise/compagnonnage, this little gem, was made in France during the 19th century, woven iron fruits basket, truly a rare find, these items were made as proof of crafts...

A rustic wicker rattan ‘buttock’ gathering basket, so named for the shape of the basket viewed from one side. A wooden branch handle forms the spine underneath the basket, with anoth...

19th century monumental English harvest basket, great at the foot of a bed or amazing coffee table.

This amazing antique grape picking basket is a rare woven version of the more common metal or wood versions of the same. it has beautiful blue let...

This woven basket from Guizhou province celebrates the beautiful simplicity of a hand-woven object. Expertly woven of thin bamboo strips, the little basket was originally used for pr...