The world is full of baskets. There are little baskets, giant baskets, basket's made out of reeds, and plastic laundry baskets. It is nearly impossible to walk into any house without seeing some kind of basket. What we seldom stop to think about is what the baskets in our homes say about us. People who have a house with lots of little baskets are people who like to have an unusual place to keep the small but important things in their life

The tiny baskets are used to house things like earrings, rings, credit cards, and other precious mementos. People who knit or read a lot of magazines are often attracted to medium sized baskets that are then placed in a convenient spot beside a chair or tucked under a coffee table. Large Baskets are often used as laundry hampers and storage containers.

Basket weaving is a form of usable art. In today's modern era there is no longer a need to actually spend the time gathering reeds, soaking them in water, and then painstakingly weave them into a basket. In today's world there are machines and factories that will do the same thing. Just because the technology exist to mass produce baskets doesn't mean that basket makers are no longer weaving reeds into works of art.