Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket cut paper animals but to my sensibilities this

but to my sensibilities this one is much lovelier for its lack of color and the wonderful schoolgirl-ish manner of the decoration

Certainly it was made some years ago as the surface of the photo

with hinges tightly attached and the variety of woods all still just beautiful

or just hang on the wall from the handy hook on the end

including just a small fragment of a mirror

Large, Unusually Cage-like Antique Lidded Sailor Made Macrame Basket cut paper animals but to my sensibilities thisA 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