Discover the Joys of Basket Weaving!

New Hands-On Guide Covers Everything You Need to Know To Become an Expert!

Dear Basket Weaving Friend,
If you have ever wanted to discover how to weave beautiful baskets, then this is definitely the most important letter you will read today!

Here’s why:

I’m about to reveal the secret that allowed me to learn how to create beautiful baskets in just a few short weeks – a secret that I am sure will work for you as well!

But before I do, allow me to introduce myself.

Hello, my name is David and I consider basket weaving to be one of the most fun things in the world to do!

It’s true – I love everything about this wonderful hobby – from selecting the materials to carefully crafting each design to placing the finished piece in a place of honor in my home.

I also love basket weaving because I work in a very technical job, and this hobby is very relaxing and also gives me a sense of accomplishment when I complete a project.

Plus, people really seem to enjoy receiving my handmade baskets as gifts! (And I really enjoy all the money I save not having to buy gifts from expensive stores!)

I guess you could say that I’m addicted to basket weaving and all its incredible benefits – and now I want to enable you to enjoy this amazing hobby as well!

Discover the Joys of Basket Weaving!

New Hands-On Guide Covers Everything You Need to Know To Become an Expert!

Dear Basket Weaving Friend,
If you have ever wanted to discover how to weave beautiful baskets, then this is definitely the most important letter you will read today!

Here’s why:

I’m about to reveal the secret that allowed me to learn how to create beautiful baskets in just a few short weeks – a secret that I am sure will work for you as well!

But before I do, allow me to introduce myself.

Hello, my name is David and I consider basket weaving to be one of the most fun things in the world to do!

It’s true – I love everything about this wonderful hobby – from selecting the materials to carefully crafting each design to placing the finished piece in a place of honor in my home.

I also love basket weaving because I work in a very technical job, and this hobby is very relaxing and also gives me a sense of accomplishment when I complete a project.

Plus, people really seem to enjoy receiving my handmade baskets as gifts! (And I really enjoy all the money I save not having to buy gifts from expensive stores!)

I guess you could say that I’m addicted to basket weaving and all its incredible benefits – and now I want to enable you to enjoy this amazing hobby as well!

The poetry of the medieval Persian sage Rumi combines lyrical beauty with spiritual profundity, a sense of rapture, and acute awareness of human suffering in ways that speak directly to contemporary audiences.

Trained in Sufism—a mystic tradition within Islam—Rumi founded the Sufi order known to us as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. Many of Rumi’s poems speak of a yearning for ecstatic union with the divine Beloved. But his images bring the sacred and the earthy together in startling ways, describing divine love in vividly human terms.

This volume draws on a wide variety of translations—from the early twentieth century to the present—of Rumi’s deeply moving, sensually vibrant poetry.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Learn the art of creative weaving with coconut leaves! Authors "Haole Bob" and Auntie Healani provide step-by-step, user-friendly instruction for weavers of all levels. Projects are expertly arranged and highlighted by striking full-color photos.

This book contains aspects of Indian basketmaking not previously described. It also unfolds for the reader Sandra Newman's personal discovery, through long learning sessions, of the byways of traditional basketmaking of four different Indian tribes. In addition to explicit information on gathering and preparation of natural materials and weaving techniques, she brings out the meaning of the craft to the partakers of these traditions. Here is a book, not only for the artists themselves, but for collectors and admirers of American Indian crafts, that they may further appreciate the Indian basket with an understanding of the complexities of weaving.

"With the inborn wisdom that has guided them for so long through so many obstacles, Hopi men and women perpetuate their proven rituals, strongly encouraging those who attempt to neglect or disrespect their obligations to uphold them. One of these obligations is to respect the flora and fauna of our planet. The Hopi closeness to the Earth is represented in all the arts of all three mesas, whether in clay or natural fibers. What clay is to a potter's hands, natural fibers are to a basket weaver."--from the Introduction Rising dramatically from the desert floor, Arizona's windswept mesas have been home to the Hopis for hundreds of years. A people known for protecting their privacy, these Native Americans also have a long and less known tradition of weaving baskets and plaques. Generations of Hopi weavers have passed down knowledge of techniques and materials from the plant world around them, from mother to daughter, granddaughter, or niece. This book is filled with photographs and detailed descriptions of their beautiful baskets--the one art, above all others, that creates the strongest social bonds in Hopi life. In these pages, weavers open their lives to the outside world as a means of sharing an art form especially demanding of time and talent. The reader learns how plant materials are gathered in canyons and creek bottoms, close to home and far away. The long, painstaking process of preparation and dying is followed step by step. Then, using techniques of coiled, plaited, or wicker basketry, the weaving begins. Underlying the stories of baskets and their weavers is a rare glimpse of what is called "the Hopi Way," a life philosophy that has strengthened and sustained the Hopi people through centuries of change. Many other glimpses of the Hopi world are also shared by author and photographer Helga Teiwes, who was warmly invited into the homes of her collaborators. Their permission and the permission of the Cultural Preservation Office of the Hopi Tribe gave her access to people and information seldom available to outsiders. Teiwes was also granted access to some of the ceremonial observances where baskets are preeminent. Woven in brilliant reds, greens, and yellows as well as black and white, Hopi weavings, then, not only are an arresting art form but also are highly symbolic of what is most important in Hopi life. In the women's basket dance, for example, woven plaques commemorate and honor the Earth and the perpetuation of life. Other plaques play a role in the complicated web of Hopi social obligation and reciprocity. Living in a landscape of almost surreal form and color, Hopi weavers are carrying on one of the oldest arts traditions in the world. Their stories in Hopi Basket Weaving will appeal to collectors, artists and craftspeople, and anyone with an interest in Native American studies, especially Native American arts. For the traveler or general reader, the book is an invitation to enter a little-known world and to learn more about an art form steeped in meaning and stunning in its beauty.

Hopi Basket Weaving is written and illustrated over the pages of an old book of the same title, pasted up with drawings, paintings and text about Lieberman's recent exhibitions and projects. The result is something between a catalogue raisonne and an artist's book, full of carefully casual juxtapositions and a few remaining basket weavers peeking out from behind the collages. Lieberman quotes Pat Robertson, Dennis Cooper and Susan Sontag; handwrites (in aquatint) a resume listing such gems as, "fired for urinating in the food;" and riffs, with sly humor, on advertising. He burns a copy of Everything is Illuminated and zips its ashes into a sandwich bag above the slogan "Everything is Illuminated / Everything is Eliminated / Everything is Laminated." More seriously and with colossal effectiveness, he posits that, "What happens in Africa, stays in Africa." Painstakingly designed by Lieberman, this is the first publication of his work.