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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10515684, member: 8267&quot;]That is actually one of the features that supports your basket&#039;s being from a Bayei weaver in Botswana. Their designs are described as often asymmetrical and (to our eyes) abstract in form. Here are two examples of a design called Maru (cloud) -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]528649[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This photo is from the book I recommended above. Published in 1979, Levinsohn was documenting basketry of that period (and earlier). She explains that there was a revival of basketry during the 1970s, encouraged by developers and missionaries as a viable source of income. I suspect that as their baskets reached broader markets there was a greater emphasis on more symmetrical, geometric designs which many westerners find more appealing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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