‘A photo appeared in the Daily Mirror on August 20, 1982. It was of a basket that measured 18ft high and 14ft across and weighed half a ton. It was the creation of two basketmakers in Michelau, West Germany, who used eleven miles of rattan on it. It was a commission for a furniture store who were to fill it with cushions and sofas….’
Click to download the Basketmakers’ Association newsletter issue 24 published Winter 1982