Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Lewis has been weaving for thirty years and specializes in European basketry techniques. Though intended as a decorative piece, her Irish Potato Basket draws from traditional “skib” or “ciseog” baskets used to strain and serve boiled potatoes. While many of these baskets have different center patterns, she used a grid or “window” center. Lewis and her husband also grow nearly sixty varieties of basketry willow on their small farm in the Pacific Northwest.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Katherine Lewis, born Palo Alto, CA 1957
- Date
- 2011
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Martha G. Ware and Steven R. Cole
- Medium
- willow
- Dimensions
- 3 1/4 x 25 in. diam. (8.3 x 63.6 cm) irregular
- Type
- Decorative Arts-Fiber
- Crafts
