Finely Handwoven Large Basket with Frog Pattern orange and blue So much fun

So much fun

I am certain it is Romanian

which hooks neatly through the chain link at the opposite end

which is about the right size to hold a rolled up note to self for safekeeping

so plenty weighty to keep even a long row of big art books tightly upright

Finely Handwoven Large Basket with Frog Pattern orange and blue So much funI am fairly certain this beautiful tall wicker basket, with lovely outwardly curling lip and terrific banded pattern of frogs around its lower half, is Northwest Coast Native. Handwoven, and very finely made, it features a sturdy structure of horizontal rings visible on the interior, and a pronounced vertical warp visible on the exterior, woven at varying densities with thinner reeds, some of which have been dyed red and black. It appears to have some