Basket, Straw and Rope-Work
Description
This file includes a photocopy of typed notes made by Rodney Cousins on basket-making, collected from H. Summers, basketmaker, Sutton-on-Trent (November 1969) and from Herbert Lloyd Johnes' 'The Basket-Makers of Sutton-on-Trent' , 'The Nottinghamshire Countryside', volume II, number 5 (July 1948), (3 leaves); John Malden's ms. notes on basketmaking at Burdekin's Baskets, Flushdyke, near Ossett (West Yorkshire) (1971), ([6] leaves); J. E. Manners' articles on trug-basket makers in Sussex, extracted from 'Country Life' (4 November 1971), p. 1224, and on spale baskets made in Furness, extracted from 'Country Life' (19 April 1973), pp. 1091-1092; a copy of Stewart Sanderson's article, 'Paper for Making Ropes', reprinted from 'Scottish Studies', volume 4, part 1 (1960), pp. 117-120; a typed memo on Sam Hanna's film on rope-making, filmed at Outhwaite's Ropemakers, Hawes (ca. 1962/1963); Celia Davies' article, 'Knowing the Ropes: The Growth of an Ancient Industry', extracted from 'Country Life' (5 October 1972), pp. 839-840; J. E. Manners' articles on ropemaking by hand, extracted from 'Country Life' (13 November 1973), p. 741, and the craft of besom-making, extracted from 'Country Life'(2 September 1971), p. 580; Maurice de Soisson's article, 'Taming the Great Ouse Floods' , on the use of mattresses in the Fens, extracted from 'Country Life' (5 October 1967), pp. 802-803; and John L. Jones's article, 'From Rush Lights to Table Mats: A Fenland Harvest', extracted from 'Country Life' (28 September 1972), pp. 745-747. The file also includes mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings from 'Country Life', the 'Sunday Times', the 'Sheffield Star and Telegraph' and the 'Yorkshire Post', on trug baskets; heather rope (or gad rope); the rope-walk at Newton Abbot, Devon; ropemaking at Outhwaite's, Hawes; a brushmaker's sign; hedging and hedging tools; and corn-dollies, including those made by George T. S. Harrison of Driffield. Many of the cuttings are largely illustrative. File contents retained in original classification order, and chronologically within this.
Metadata
| Identifier | bbsj8vb7 |
| IRN | 410615 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/FLF/3/7/12 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bbsj8vb7 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Crafts, Trades and Industries |
| Date | 1960-1973 |
| Size and Medium | 1 file of typed, photocopied and ms. papers, magazine extracts, and mounted magazine and newspaper cuttings. |