// Description file for Neil Smith
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"Picnic Basket, 48x32x19cm, buff willow. Commission
Neil Smith 2001",
"Steamed willow and coated poly cord on turned wood base 32cm dia
Neil Smith 2001",
"Laundry Basket, 65x38x30cm, white willow. Commission
Neil Smith 2001",
"Round Shopper, 28cm dia, buff/white willow, skein-wrapped handle. Sold through Raw Gallery, Beverley
Neil Smith 1999",
"Kitchen Basket (one of a set), 48x33cm, buff willow, Swiss style base. Commission
Neil Smith 2000",
"Workbasket, 32cm dia, buff/white willow. French randed base. Lid with skeined loop and inner flange. Sold at private show in York
Neil Smith 1999",
"Laundry Basket, 40cm dia, 80cm high, buff willow with lid
Neil Smith 2001",
"Tricycle Pannier Basket, 42x33x14cm, buff willow. Waled sides, stick and loop fastening
Commission
Neil Smith 2001",
"Set of 3 Kitchen Baskets, 60x32x18cm, buff willow. Commission
Neil Smith 2001",
"Tension Triangle, 40cm, brown willow and birch ply
Neil Smith 2001",
"French Squarework Hamper, 43x29cm, buff willow, five-turn twisted handle, loop and stick fastening (made after a course with Sally Goymer).
Commission
Neil Smith 1998",
"Tension Triangle, one of a set of three, 35cm, Yorkshire osier and Black Maul
Neil Smith 2005",
"Tension Pod, Osier and white willow, built upside-down. 40x22x20cm
Neil Smith 2005",
"Picnic Basket, 48x30cm, buff willow, scallomed lids hinged to central bridge. Commission
Neil Smith 1998",
"Large circular tray, 65cm dia, French White Willow from Villaines les Rochers
Neil Smith 2005",
"Hedgerow basket made at York 2000, 40cm dia, wild dogwood, hazel, willow. French Randed/waled base, double stakes, double border.
Neil Smith 2000",
"Gathering basket, white willow, 38cm dia
Neil Smith 2005",
"Six white Wedding Gift baskets, 20cm dia, French white willow, made on rotary mould.
Neil Smith 2000",
"Toy Basket, 85cm dia, buff/white willow, French randed base.
Neil Smith 1999",
"Fruit bowl, 30cm dia, buff willow, siding woven butt-to-tip-to-butt. Sold at Howden Show
Neil Smith 1999",
"French Squarework Doctors basket, 32x19cm, buff willow, scallommed lids hinged on centre bridge, three-rod skeined handle with leader.
Neil Smith 1997",
"Workbasket, 40cm dia, white willow, internal flange for lid on follow-on after border (after style of Andris Lapins).
Neil Smith 1998",
"Making a Laundry Basket
52cm dia x 60cm tall, buff willow, I made this while demonstrating at Beverley Art Gallery during the opening of the Crafts Council exhibition Interwoven The audience are my data network engineering team, Karl, Jamie, Mike and Mike
Commission
Neil Smith Nov 2000",
"Neil at Woodrow 1999, bleaching a basket in an improvised sulphur smoke box",
"Hedgerow bottle basket, 110cm tall 38cm dia, wild hazel, wild willow, green dicks, dark dicks. Modified zigzag randing.
Neil Smith 2000",
"Picnic basket inside view, 48x32x19cm, buff willow. Commission
Neil Smith 2001",
"Sciathog, 40cm dia, Black Maul and wild osier
Neil Smith 2002",
"Triangle Frame basket, 60cm, Black Maul and wild osier
Another development of the triangle theme
Neil Smith 2002",
"Burgundian basket, 50cm long, Black Maul and wild osier
A copy of a beautiful example bought in a garden centre in Normandy
Neil Smith 2002",
"Detail of Chinese Knot basket, 19cm dia, White willow rods and skeins
I was taught this technique by Andris Lapins
Neil Smith 2004",
"Detail of outside of Chinese Knot basket, 19cm dia, White willow rods and skeins
I was taught this technique by Andris Lapins
Neil Smith 2004",
"Gathering Basket, 28cm dia, Unstripped Black Maul on osier frame
Neil Smith 2004",
"Apple Picker, 32cm dia, Unstripped Black Maul
slewed sidesNeil Smith 2004",
"Two Bound Blue baskets, 36cm dia, Steamed willow and poly cord
Neil Smith 2004",
"Chestnut Server, 22cm x 17cm, Unstripped Black Maul on a riven, carved piece of chestnut from my garden, dried in the oven around a mould
Neil Smith 2004",
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var makerInfo="Neil Smith specialises in fine willow work. He lives in a small East Yorkshire village and is a committee member of the Basketmakers Association, a Yeoman Member of the Worshipful Company of Basketmakers and a member of the Scottish Basketmakers Circle. Neil has trained with Anna King, Mary Butcher, Jackie Binns, Sally Goymer, Sheila Wynter, Andris Lapins, Colin Manthorpe and Graham Glanville";
var makerFullName="Neil Smith";
var makerEmail="neil@basketmaker.net";
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