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Round Leaf Basket, 19 in

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Sale price$3,000.00

A gathering bowl you don’t put away.

Pale honeysuckle crosshatched over red vine, a lashed bentwood rim, a sprig of woven leaves, and a floor that spirals out from a single point. This is wild Virginia honeysuckle, some strands skinned pale and some left russet, with no dye and no finish.  Anne McCauley gathers the vines around her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia 

At nineteen inches and low to the table, it belongs in the middle of a dining table, piled with citrus or left empty so the weave can be seen. Two of her baskets are in the Smithsonian Museum collection.  There is only one of this one, and it's meant to be used.

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Round Leaf Basket, 19 in
Round Leaf Basket, 19 in Sale price$3,000.00

Why you'll love this basket...

In the Smithsonian. And on your table.

Two of Anne's baskets live in the Smithsonian's permanent collection. These are made the same way, by the same hands, from the same pattern she invented at twelve. The difference is you can fill this one with bread and set it out for company.

Built to be used, not admired

Strong, light, and made to be handled — Anne builds these for use, not for a shelf. Larger ones carry a wire through the handle, wrapped back over in honeysuckle, so you can load them up and pass them down the table without a second thought.

A young girl in a green field kneels beside a woven basket, with sheep and rolling hills in the background.

Self-taught at twelve. Still weaving.

Anne is entirely self-taught. She worked out her weave at twelve, tending goats in the Virginia hills, and has used that same pattern for every basket since — well over forty years of them. No lessons, no borrowed methods. Just hers.

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 Made to be handed down 

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Craftsman Profile

Anne Scarpa McCauley

Born in Vermont, Anne moved with her family to Virginia at age four. She grew up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, one of eleven children.

Her family, early hippies, had many animals including dairy goats. Anne often had the job of tending the herd of goats on unfenced parts of the property. Anne sometimes made little circles or wreaths for her hair with the nearby honeysuckle. At age twelve she made her first basket, using a coil made of honeysuckle. This same coil pattern is used in all her baskets.

Anne's baskets are original and unique. She has never taken lessons, studied books or contacted other basket makers for ideas. Anne has been making these for over thirty years and has won many awards, including being included in the Smithsonian's collection of American craft objects at the Renwick Gallery.

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