Bamboo for basketry (natural and dyed) - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 99738 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 200.00 POACEAE | Entry Book Number | 11.2017 | |
| Artefact Name | Bamboo for basketry (natural and dyed) | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Nepal | TDWG Region | Nepal | ||
| Parts Held | Bamboo for basketry (natural and dyed) | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Bamboo for basketry (natural and dyed)Use: User: | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Dunsmore, Susi | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | 10/04/2017 | Donor Notes | see: Susi Dunsmore 2016. Notes on Nepal's creative basketry. ISBN 0-9552900-1-5 p 34 illustrates patterns in bamboo mats | ||
| Collector | Dunsmore, Susi | Collector No | |||
| Collection Notes | Collection Date | ||||
| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | 3 samples showing natural colour of bamboo, and smoked bamboo. [In Nepal] bamboo is smoked to protect it against insect attack. The bamboo strands are stored over the fire place for several weeks. The rich brown is used in combinations with the natural, colour bamboo to create many differerent designs. Madder for red, walnut bark for black and synthetic dyes of various colours (Indian direct dyes in powder form) are used by some [Nepalese] basket makers. x0Dx0A3 further samples of bamboo dyed with onion s, kin, and madder presumably personal experiments of the donor included. | ||||