Nantucket Basket Purse Oak Wood Carved Shells
Exquisite Nantucket Lightship Basket Purse with oak wood rims and classic carved Nantucket shells, entirely hand-woven and hand-crafted of natural rattan cane basketweaving materials with an oak wood base, lid, swing handle and basket rims. This Nantucket basket purse lends itself to more formal occasions, but works equally as well in casual situations.
This finely hand-crafted Nantucket Basket Purse features 77 hand-tapered and beveled rattan cane staves, each deeply inserted into the oval hardwood oak wood base. Tightly woven in Nantucket-grade cane, with oak hardwood basketry rims. The woven top of this Nantucket Basket Purse also features hand-tapered and beveled rattan reed staves and the traditional tight Nantucket-grade cane weaving.
The woven Nantucket basket purse lid features two carved Nantucket seashells on the top, in a classic and desired decoration.
The hardwood oak wood rims have been steam-bent and scarf to a perfect fit, then nailed with thin brass pins and double lashed in cane, with an additional piece of hand-formed cane used to cover the slim gap between the inside and outside rims. As a finishing touch, an additional piece of cane was used along the outside rims of the basket lid.
The closure loop and back hinges are sturdy cane-wrapped leather and have been nailed with thin brass nails.
The oak hardwood Nantucket basket purse swing handle is attached to the oak basketry rims with a brass handle pin, and a set of synthetic bone knobs and washers. The synthetic bone closure peg is attached to the rims. A light finish of shellac has been applied to this Nantucket basket purse to seal, protect, strengthen and bring out the beauty of the natural weaving materials.
This lovely traditional Large Nantucket Lightship Basket Purse measures 11" (knob to knob), 7" front to back, 5.5" tall to the rims, 7.5" tall to the top of the basket purse lid and 13" tall to the top of the basket handle in the upright position. Crafted in 2007 by Kathleen Becker - Simply Baskets. You can read more about the history of Nantucket Baskets and Nantucket Lightship Basket Purses here.
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