Job Description:

• 1) Performs any combination of following tasks in fabrication of reed and wicker baskets: Cuts out premarked basket bottoms from flakeboard sheet, using bandsaw.

• 2) Drills specified number of rod holes around edge of each bottom, using gauge and drillpress.

• 3) Dips end of presized birch dowels into glue pot and inserts rods into holes of bottoms to form basket frames for WEAVER.

• 4) Bevels ends of soaked reed handle, using knife, and attaches handle to woven basket by inserting ends through woven sides, at specified points, to base of basket.

• 5) Immerses basket into glue drum to bind woven reed and leaf material to rods and give luster to finished basket.