Tour Scotland Video Basket Maker

Tour Scotland video of a basket maker at the Travelling People and Gypsy Festival at Lochore Meadows Country Park, Fife, Scotland. Basketry or basket weaving is one of the oldest traditional crafts in Scotland. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, crofting families in the Highlands and Islands made tightly woven grass containers to store grain and meal, and creel baskets for carrying heavy loads such as fuel, manure, crops and other goods. The first settlers who arrived in the Hebrides 9,000 years ago made long fishing baskets out of willow to catch fish.

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