John Wright Basketmaker

From the collection of

East Anglian Film Archive at the University of East Anglia
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John Wright Basketmaker


John Wright of Onehouse, a village near Stowmarket, Suffolk, demonstrates the making of a familiar basket known as a 'potato picker'. He works with bare hands and sits of the floor at the lapboard. As he describes his work, he uses the specialist vocabulary of the craft: 'bodkin', 'brake', 'slewing', 'picking knife'.


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