scallomn.
/ˈskaləm/ Basket-making.
A stake or rod, of which a thin or spliced end is wrapped round another stake to form a base or frame of a basket; the method of weaving baskets thus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > manufacture of fabric from specific materials > manufacture of articles made from twigs, etc. > basket-making > processes
slewing1902
picking1912
pricking-up1912
rib-randing1912
scallom1912
listing1953
slyping1960
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > foundation or skeleton > foundation rod > specific
spoke1897
league1903
stake1903
by-stake1912
scallom1912
1912 T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making vii. 75 Bottoms and covers may also be made on hoops and scalloms.
1912 T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making Gloss. 154 Scallom, a method of forming the rigid inner frame of a bottom or cover, or of staking up a basket.
1929 A. G. Knock Fine Willow Basketry 18 Scallom, a stake, or the equivalent of a bottom-stick or lid-stick which has been affixed by looping its thinned end round a hoop or the outside stick of a bottom.
1959 Gloss. Terms Packaging (B.S.I.) 16 Scallom, the spliced end of a stake which is wrapped round the bottom outside stick and woven into the next two scalloms.
1959 D. Wright Baskets & Basketry iv. 115 5 scalloms of No. 12 cane run from end to end.
1959 D. Wright Baskets & Basketry vi. 136 Scallom, method of fixing stakes to a ring of willow or cane.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
scallomv.
Basket-making.
transitive. (See quot.)
ΚΠ
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 423/1 These [sc. the stout osiers that are to form the ribs of the basket] are forced or plaited, ‘scallumed’, between the rods of the bottom from the edge to the centre, and are turned up, ‘upset’, in the direction of the sides.
1912 T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making vii. 80 When the side stakes are scallomed on.
1929 A. G. Knock Fine Willow Basketry 61 To the curved part of the hoop, eight stakes are now scallomed.
1959 D. Wright Baskets & Basketry ii. 45 The sticks are scallomed, that is: thinned down to a long, flat point and taken round the frame... Scalloming is easier to work with willow than with cane because the rods kink and stay rigid when dry.
Derivatives
ˈscallomed adj.
ΚΠ
1959 D. Wright Baskets & Basketry iv. 114 This basket and its lid are made on a scallomed base.
ˈscalloming n.
ΚΠ
1929 A. G. Knock Fine Willow Basketry 62 In scalloming a long tongue is formed at the butt-end of the stake.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.1912v.1875