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Alison Fitzgerald: basket weaving
Alison Fitzgerald’s baskets are both innovate and traditional. The oval forms of her potato baskets also echo those that were made in considerable volume near Lough Neagh up until the 1930s, yet the understated gradations of colour and the use of the different types of willow to emphasise the ribbing within the pieces, give them an expensive subtlety.
When I first started out I tried to work out what people wanted to buy. If I went to a show and sold a lot of log baskets, for instance, I would come home and make more of what sold. But nowadays I like to modify my designs to try different weaves and to experiment with blending the colours of the willow.” Eleanor Flegg, Mar-Apr 2010
Published: Monday, 01st March 2010
