Hallo Di , i started making baskets at a very young age, i saw people who made grass baskets and was facinated , but i could not find enough grass , or vines of bushes or branches , and thus i started to play with , papers,old nylon stockings, threads torn clothes , whatever would be plyable enough to wrap , to coil, etc... when we came to America ,Boston , with my Husband`s work, i was Lucky enough to find the PIA , that in that time was within BU.... and i joined the class of Weaving without a loom ,,,, with Barbara Shawcroft, who herself worked and studied with Ed Rossbach. She was a great Teacher and opened my mind to the possibilitis of using both my life experience with materials and incorportaing them with my feelings. In many ways she was my Fiberartistic mother, and i am forever thankful to her. Several years later we had an Imternational congress here about Fiberart and i was lucky enough to have met the Late Lilian Elliot , who also inspired and blessed us all with her loving of materials , of shaping feelings and transforming them into what she called "soul vessels". I deffinitely advise you to read some books about Basketry, it might inspire you to all the possibilities .... One can build baskets in all forms , even with several openings !!! You can do it all. "The New Basketry" , Ed Rossbach, Van Nostrand , 1976. "Free Weaving " , Myriam Gilby, Charles Scribner`s Sons, 1976 . "Weaving study Course " , Else Regenmeister, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company , 1975, { deals with weaving but has interesting 3D ideas.] "Taaniko, Maori Hand-weaving" Joyce Ronald Smith, Charles Scribner ,
1975. [ A weaving form that allows 3D easily, and is more basketry like] mirjam