This image is reported as being gleaned from a flea market. It depicts a WILLOWweaver at work and its speculated that thec 'place' is somewhere in the Netherlands. Interestingly its an image that invokes the memories of those who knew 'Ballards workshop' in their 'young days'.
This images speaks of the 'time-before-plastic' when as likely as not the baskets you bought from a WILLOWweaver was made to order and fit for your purpose.
Elizabeth Pearson saved to 1943 planet earth.Basket making, Mrs Francis Willmott at basket making centre under the auspices of the West Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes. Aim is to produce 2 million potato baskets – countrywide -for years crop. 1943.
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