Lovely Vintage Pine Needle Basket Tray with Handles spotted pig or else keep them on

or else keep them on my desk storing paper clips etc

While quintessentially mid-century

” translating to "discourse on the method

and certainly could be used as such--and I must say it makes a very strong argument for the return of buying blocks of ice and chipping ice by hand

Lovely Vintage Pine Needle Basket Tray with Handles spotted pig or else keep them onThis pine needle basket tray, probably mid 20th century and Coushatta (Southeast U. S native), is just lovely, with a terrific interplay between the warm brown of the pine needles and the light stitching, which creates a spiral pattern as it joins one pine needle bundle to the next. Plus those beautifully knotted "golden sun" details at the handles and center! The basket, which I believe was made to hold a pie plate, seems to have been finished with a