Basket
A basket is a container. It is usually light in weight.
Basket makers use a wide variety of materials to create a basket, such as bark, willow rods, leaves, wire, plastic, paper, and rope. There are three basic kinds of baskets—coiled, twined, or woven. A woven basket is made of spokes and weavers: the spokes run up and down and the weavers go over and under the spokes. A coiled basket is made by sewing rings of a fibrous material to the previous ring. Twined baskets have flexible weavers that are twined around the spokes in a variety of patterns.
Basketmaking is a very old practice; it features in myths from various cultures. Baskets were often used to carry fruits, berries, and other things to be gathered. Nowadays, baskets are less practical but still common. Ancient baskets can be found in many cultures. Basket weaving is one of these activities, either for practical use or fun. In Native American culture, basket weaving is a common activity.
In basketball, the basket is an open net fixed to a metal ring in which players try to throw the ball.
Basket Media
Edible mushrooms in a basket.
Basket of Plums, painting by Pierre Dupuis.
On the left side are live fowl baskets. Directly to the right are flat baskets used for selling shrimp and small fish in Haikou City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China
Palm baskets (front) and wicker baskets (back)
President Lyndon B. Johnson with a basket of dogs.
Hand Crafted Woven Basket hanging on the wall.
Four different styles of baskets
Baskets - Danforth Museum - Framingham, MA
A set of traditional hand-woven native Indian Nuu-chah-nulth peoples' baskets (Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada)
Baskets for sale in the island of La Réunion, east of Madagascar
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