Textile Art ~ How Do You Weave A Basket Onto Cloth?

I don’t really know how a basket can be weaved onto cloth, yet I do have an example to show you. Whoever made this small table cloth was an accomplished artist with a needle and thread.

In addition to hand crocheting the trim, and then hand stitching it around the edges, she also managed to create a basket of flowers as the centrepiece, with a realistic three dimensional looking basket weave.

The colour of the trim frames the image, perfectly matching the colour of the flowers, in the midst of the white space. It is a basket of flowers and leaves with texture, colour, symmetry and balance.

The stitching does show on the reverse for part of the featured basket with flowers, but it does not show the same as most embroidery and needlework does. Therefore, it leads me to believe she managed to create the weave of the basket on the surface of the cloth somehow.

If you examine the reverse side, you will see what I mean. From the front, it really does look like a basket weave, which is the first time I have ever seen this particular type of textile art.

It goes to show, some people are talented when they pick up a paint brush, and dip it into a dynamic range of colour choices, then work on it fastidiously. They watch their very own creation take on the form and shape of the image they hold in their mind’s eye.

The same can be said for pottery, sculptures, and wood working. Creativity is born of visualization, and is sown into an expansive construct.

Others manage to make cloth their canvas, and can create amazing art, using a needle and thread.

The rest of us get to marvel at, and enjoy their wonderful creations. We can’t say how – but we do say wow!