Traditional wicker shopping basket

naturegirl_2

Hi kittie, I have never heard of them do you have a picture of one?. If I cant make it. I know a man who could!!!!

naturegirl_2

well I am amazed at the interest in bread making it seems quite trendy again. Just looked on internet for these baskets and most are made from cane which I dont do but some are just basic willow baskets with a cloth lining which I could do if given the dimentions. Well you live and learn.

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naturegirl I have sorted myself out now re containers but I am sure there would be an opening for baskets of the right type. If I were you I would make one to hold eg a round 1 kg loaf. I wouldn`t bother with the material because people can use a plain cotton tea towel. Try to sell one on ebay with brotformen and banneton somewhere in the title so it gets picked up in searches

It isn`t the cost of buying them, it is just the fact that they are unobtainable and germany will only send a minimum of 6

help on sizes (English version and catalogue on the bottom tabs)
http://www.brotformen.de/

naturegirl_2

Thanks kittie I'll check out the website for sizes etc. They look very simple shapes to me and it would be no problem to custom make them to whatever size people want

janb5

naturegirl wrote:

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.

I love baskets and have found in the past that the only way to get them is from second hand shops where they have done house clearance. One shop near me( I live in Bromley) has them quite frequently and I have to avoid going in there otherwise I would always buy yet another basket and even I have got to admit I have enough (8!)

Please let us all know when your website is up and running. Could you explain which ones are inferior and how you can tell it`s a good basket. Also when is it worth repairing?

bellsbells

I love my wicker baskets! I have one that I used for cooking at school, and now use to carry books home for marking, so still using it for school:rotfl: I have a round one that is perfect for shopping, and I also have a small wicker box style picnic basket with lid. I love them and would buy more given half the chance, even though I don't need any more:rotfl:

RacyRed

I went to Ikea earlier this evening and they have the most amazing baskets in! They are sort of narrow, elongated gondola baskets, called Rokad.

The main basket is about 70cm long, 45cm high and at it's widest, about 22cm. The opening in the top is only about 10 cm wide.

They had another type which were much narrower but very deep.

Both types came with an additional miniature copy of the main basket.

I am in no doubt that they are not anything like as good as English willow baskets and at £14.99 they are not cheap, but the thought of one of them stuffed with tumbling and twining plants...



I have no willpower.

thriftlady_2

I was walking home from the school run last week carrying my basket (I'd used it to carry flapjacks and muffins for the school tuck shop), and a bloke said to me as he passed ' Watch out for the big bad wolf love' :rotfl:

jennyjelly

I absolutely love English wicker, and living where I do near the Somerset withy beds it is quite easy to get hold of, and though not cheap it's a really good investment compared to that very flimsy foreign stuff you get in cheap shops which doesn't last five minutes. I wonder which of the baskets made today will still be in regular use almost 40 years on?

I do jewellery parties and my 1970 cookery basket holds all my bits and pieces. I really don't know what I'd use if I didn't have it, it's exactly right.

I also have a lovely round wicker basket in the bedroom where odd socks live until their lost partners reappear (or they get thrown away when it's obvious they are never going to), and a wicker fishing basket with a lid holding the spare loo rolls in the downstairs loo.

Whatever your need, there is a wicker basket that will fulfill it (I wouldn't recomend washing up in one, but you know what I mean!)

RacyRed

jennyjelly wrote:

a wicker fishing basket with a lid holding the spare loo rolls in the downstairs loo.

Thats a great idea!