Making Baskets
12th May 1938
Date: 1959 Location: Inishere, Co. Galway
Photographer: Simon Coleman
Archival information
Baskets: Cliabh feamainne; piece of wood to prevent rope tying load from cutting basket; construction of bottom of cliabh fheamuinne (open to permit water to run out); ciséanín - Inishere.
Baskets are made at home at present. This is the way they are made: -
First of all my father gets a bundle of sally rods. He sticks a number of them in the ground in the form of a square 11/2' x11/2' . Then other rods are woven in between the rods which are stuck in the ground. When they are woven about a foot and a half high, then the basket is pulled up.
The rods which are left standing up are woven down between four or five thick rods which are left across the bottom.
Then the creal is turned up and the tops of the rods which were stuck in the ground are cut off. An earis is put in one side of the creal to hang it on the scuróga.
The strong rods which are standing are stretched from side to side to make the bottom of the basket.
“INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo”