Traditional wicker shopping basket

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Busybody

I wonder if it is worth it though as my local veg shop is only 50yds away. Couldn't be cheaper either........ carrots 15p lb, caulis 40p, huge lemons 5 for 60p... people drive miles to shop there.

Yea you could ride the bike there :cool: and when you have loaded it up with goodies push it back! it would make you look very eco friendly:T

recovering_spendaholic

thriftlady wrote:

You can get wicker wally trolleys. I want one of these - expensive though. Look on Ebay for old wicker shopping trolleys.

http://www.hembrow.eu/wheelie.html

I've got a lovely big wicker basket on my lovely bike too, great for cycling to the library.

OMG! I had forgotten about those wicker wally trollies - my auntie and my gran had them - they are properly amazing (to use DD's vernacular)! The ones I remember though had only one long curved handle in the middle and they were more rounded. I have a bike with a big wicker basket on the front and I love it but I haven't ridden my bike for ages as I feel too fat on it - when I have lost a bit more weight (hopefully in the summer) I will use it for shopping and so on.

Rage_in_Eden

I've got one of those hemp shopping bags - £3 from my local Oxfam and it holds LOADS! Having said that I have my old wicker basket (again from the school cookery!) and would like to use it BUT where can I get those plastic covers from which had the slit in the middle for the handle. I could use a budgie cage bottom cover but I would have to put in on and off each time and a proper one would be so much better.

thriftlady_2

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

haven't ridden my bike for ages as I feel too fat on it - when I have lost a bit more weight (hopefully in the summer) I will use it for shopping and so on.

Me too :rotfl: it's a vicious circle isn't it ?

naturegirl_2

The problem with buying cheap willow baskets is
a) Their cheap imports and often not good quality
b) buying cheap imports puts British basket makers out of business
c) I am a basket maker !!!
I do make a variety of baskets, garden products and sculptures. Im based in the North West and will have my very own website soon. But check the web for a maker near you and you could have one custom made and repair old ones too.

Poppy9

Rage_in_Eden wrote:

BUT where can I get those plastic covers from which had the slit in the middle for the handle.

I used to buy them in my local market on the Welsh products stall. My mother also used to make them by just hemming and putting in some elastic around the sides.

vfairbrass

Do you remember the wonderful progamme Nineteen Forties House, where the family had to live as they would have done during the war. The mum went into the village (West Wickham) everyday with her wicker basket to do the shopping (and the queuing). I remember her saying after the end of the programme that it was the shopping daily for necessary ingredients that she would continue in her normal life. I was very impressed by that.

Valerie

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I love British hand made baskets but they are really hard to find. My shopping basket was hand made and I got it in an agricultural show. eg the sourdough bread makers hunt everywhere for bannetons and no-one can find them in this country. The only ones I managed to get were imported from Germany

naturegirl if you can make bannetons then you`ll have a ready, steady market through sites like this

http://www.danlepard.com/forum/

recovering_spendaholic

thriftlady wrote:

You can get wicker wally trolleys. I want one of these - expensive though. Look on Ebay for old wicker shopping trolleys.

http://www.hembrow.eu/wheelie.html

I've got a lovely big wicker basket on my lovely bike too, great for cycling to the library.

I found a wicker wally trolley like the kind my Auntie and Grandma had - I would so love to own one but don't think I would have the nerve to use it (I'm 43 and feel that it is just tooooo young:rotfl: ) http://www.englishwillowbaskets.co.uk/acatalog/Stylish_Shoppers.html I am definitely going to order one of the baskets from Lakeland though.