Deerfield's Progressive Impulse
Well-made Baskets for the dutiful consumer
Deerfield Basket Makers
All of the baskets designed and made by the Deerfield Basket Makers featured forms suited to their intended purposes and decoration limited to the pleasing patterns inherent to the weave itself. Materials were sometimes tinted using natural dyes. In addition to palm leaf and willow, this group created utilitarian baskets made of reeds, and small baskets and trays constructed of Southern pine needles woven tightly with raffia or linen thread.
In Their Words
© Memorial Hall Museum, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association
Willow Basket
Deerfield Basket Makers, c. 1920
