Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket antique drafting tools I just found/find it very

I just found/find it very excellent

but certainly flexing one's core muscles to hold there

but I love looking at it anyway and surely with some effort  someone better than me could puzzle it out

when harvested correctly

with hopes it would be as good and I thought it was

Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket antique drafting tools I just found/find it veryA sailor made macrame basket, late 19th century or so, as large as I've see and rather amazingly still with its lid (with very sweet scalloped edge) and with this unusually wide, open weave on the sides, pushing the limits of the basket form and making it feel equally like a cage in which one might carry home a canary or a live fish! (Found in Maine, I might think it was a lobster trap that inspired it!) As Ive said before, antique sailor made baskets