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t first, I wasn’t sure that a collection of 52 baskets from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales wouldn’t be out of place installed as an artwork above my bar at The Whitby Hotel in Manhattan. When you think of fast-paced, frenetic New York, handweaving from the British Isles is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. And yet, there was something quite beautiful about a functional piece of work used in this

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