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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 11361828, member: 8267"]Your basket is most probably from Sonora, Mexico, and made of local palm fibers. Although both yours and kraftblue's are coiled, there is a difference in the stitches used to join the coils. The Mexican weavers use a distinctive spaced stitch that holds the coils slightly apart. In the raffia basket, the stitches hold the coils close together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 11361828, member: 8267"]Your basket is most probably from Sonora, Mexico, and made of local palm fibers. Although both yours and kraftblue's are coiled, there is a difference in the stitches used to join the coils. The Mexican weavers use a distinctive spaced stitch that holds the coils slightly apart. In the raffia basket, the stitches hold the coils close together.[/QUOTE]
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