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Basket and Trug Making | Dying Arts #7
In this Bonus Episode, Eleanor and Martin explore the history of Basket and Trug Making, which may just be the oldest crafts of all.
Part of the "Dying Arts" series, we start by discussing the basics, including what a basket really is, including ancient examples from Rome and Egypt.
After chatting about how basket and trug-making were crafts that managed to defy mass-scale industrialization right through until the 20th century, we venturing from Somerset's marshes to Sussex, where the modern trug was born, then rifle about amongst basket folklore, from Moses to Pearina and beyond, before…
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