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This kit includes everything needed to weave a Sturbridge basket: simple
instructions with photo illustrations, clothespins, a Popsicle stick,
colored reed for creating designs, and a gift tag. You supply scissors, a
dab of glue, and a little imagination. A traditional beginner's basket
with sustainable materials. The finished product measures about 5.5 x 5.5 x 9 inches. From Basket Weaving 101.
"Not
long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at the house of a
well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. "Do you wish to buy any baskets?"
he asked. "No, we do not want any," was the reply. "What!" exclaimed the
Indian as he went out the gate, "do you mean to starve us?" Having seen
his industrious white neighbors so well off — that the lawyer had only
to weave arguments, and, by some magic, wealth and standing followed —
he had said to himself: I will go into business; I will weave baskets;
it is a thing which I can do. Thinking that when he had made the baskets
he would have done his part, and then it would be the white man's to
buy them. He had not discovered that it was necessary for him to make it
worth the other's while to buy them, or at least make him think that it
was so, or to make something else which it would be worth his while to
buy. I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had
not made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my
case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of
studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied
rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. The life which men
praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we
exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?" Henry D. Thoreau,
Walden
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