Lattice Work

This is a shape 644 basket with a Gold Ruby liner. It is difficult to find this basket with a liner since the liner has often been lost over the years.

“While referred to as lattice work, woven or basket weave, this effect requires no weaving of the glass canes. Rather, it is built up in layers by zig zagging the canes and attaching each new layer to the apex points of the previous layer. This may have been done around a metal or wooden form to provide shape. Whether around a form or freehand, this was a difficult thing to do while working with molten glass without having the final form collapse or sag. This basket came with a separate clear glass liner that slipped inside and could hold water.”

p. 141, Objects of Desire, the Art of Frederick Carder, by Alan Shovers