Tightly Woven Antique Tutsi Basket with Rich Patina antique work on paper So many beautiful kitchen tools

So many beautiful kitchen tools and perhaps the pie crimper is the loveliest form of all

It could certainly still be used to to catch ashes and/or save a butt or two from becoming litter

with dark mud-looking stain as noted and a bit of what I think is some green paint rubbed off of another drawing at lower right on that same side

drawn on fronts only

Tightly Woven Antique Tutsi Basket with Rich Patina antique work on paper So many beautiful kitchen toolsThis to my eye very beautiful old basket is Tutsi (a Rwandan ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region, also known as Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi, and particularly renowned for the fineness of their basketry, woven by women). Distinguishing Tutsi baskets are their very intricate weaving patterns, use of very fine woven material, and extraordinarily tight weave. Also common to these baskets, which were made to be used, and used and used, but also