Haga Kanu
Reed Basket, 9" x 9" x 7" (8.5" at opening)
Up on the Porch Roof, Portland, Maine
This basket is an attempt to reconsider a vintage Japanese basket purchased from the Green Fish Trading Company of Santa Rosa, California. This version utilizes reed instead of bamboo and uses 1/2-oval uprights that give it a deeply textured surface. The base is a unique type of 'filling-in' that I had not used before. The basket is colored with a dye made of black walnut hulls recovered on a weaving trip to Tennessee.