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Herring Cran

Herring Cran

Her traditional module piece for City & Guilds, made to a herring cran: the fixed measure a Scottish fishing crew used to count a catch. A cran had to hold exactly the same volume every time, so the recipe permits no invention at all. [Check and correct any of this — I have it second-hand from you.]

[Your paragraph.] You told me your autism loves the perfection and regularity of a traditional recipe. That is the most interesting thing anyone could say about this basket, and nobody else writing about traditional basketry will say it. Two or three sentences on what the constraint actually feels like to work inside.

Materials
[Willow]
Size
[h × w cm]
Made
[2025]
Status
[Not for sale]
[Second photo — a detail of the weave or the border.]