Brandenburg Willow Coppice and Basketry

Willow for baskets, grown on the wet floodplains of the Spree and Havel because, it says, each kilogram of dry wood takes 400 to 600 litres of water. It matches three willows to their work, from eel traps to bread-proofing baskets, sets planting at about 43,000 stools a hectare in paired rows, and covers cutting, sorting, weaving, kitchen and farm baskets, brooms and the Lusatian guilds. Its designs include a meat-curing basket that shuts out blowflies. Its sources are few, and many are local or craft websites.