Basket of the Month: Flo Hoppe’s Whitecaps Basket from Contemporary Wicker Basketry

Techniques used: Space-dyeing, Star base, Twined arrow, Twining, Three-rod wale, Step-up, Three-row arrow, Hidden join, Pinching spoke for the upsett, Locked four-rod coil, Basic wave weave, Overlapped join, Preparing the border core, Japanese rolled border variation 1

Materials:

• No. 4 round reed for spokes and four-rod coil (3 oz)

• No. 3 round reed for side weavers (3 oz)

• 1/4-inch flat oval reed for weavers (2 oz)

• No. 6 round reed or border core (42 in)