Does anyone know if there is a word for a Basket maker/weaver?

Back in the dim and distant past I thought the name was Osier - but modern dictionaries seem not to show this.

not to put too fine a point on it, but basketweaver.

-joe (wickerworker) friday

How about basketmaker? Osier is a kind of willow tree the twigs of which are used in basket weaving. If resort to foreign languages is desired: French vannier and German Korbflechter.

Yes basketweaver or basketmaker would be the logical choices.
There is also the more obscure skepmaker or willower.

It doesn't look that way, Morseman:

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun basketmaker
1 sense of basketmaker
Sense 1
basketweaver, basketmaker -- (someone skilled in weaving baskets)
maker, shaper -- (a person who makes things)

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Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun basketmaker
1 sense of basketmaker
Sense 1
basketweaver, basketmaker -- (someone skilled in weaving baskets)


maker, shaper -- (a person who makes things)
basketweaver, basketmaker -- (someone skilled in weaving baskets)
belt maker -- (a maker of belts)
bookmaker -- (a maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books)
brewer, beer maker -- (someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water)
chandler -- (a maker (and seller) of candles and soap and oils and paints)
cobbler, shoemaker -- (a person who makes or repairs shoes)
confectioner, candymaker -- (someone who makes candies and other sweets)
generator, source, author -- (someone who originates or causes or initiates something; ``he was the generator of several complaints'' )
glassmaker -- (someone who makes glass)
hatmaker, hatter, milliner, modiste -- (someone who makes and sells hats)
ironworker -- (a person who makes articles of iron)
jewelry maker, jeweler, jeweller -- (someone who makes jewelry)
maltster, maltman -- (a maker of malt)
manufacturer, producer -- (someone who manufactures something)
needleworker -- (someone who does work (as sewing or embroidery) with a needle)
patternmaker -- (someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking))
perfumer -- (a person who makes (and sells) perfumes)
piano maker -- (a person who makes pianos)
saddler -- (a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses)
sailmaker -- (a maker of sails)
shirtmaker -- (a maker of shirts)
spinner, spinster, thread maker -- (someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads))
steelmaker, steelworker, steelman -- (a worker engaged in making steel)
tentmaker -- (someone who makes or repairs tents)
toolmaker -- (someone skilled in making or repairing tools)
vintner, winemaker, wine maker -- (someone who makes wine)
violin maker -- (someone who makes violins)
watchmaker, horologist, horologer -- (someone who makes or repairs watches)
wigmaker -- (someone who makes and sells wigs)
HAS INSTANCE=> Sax, Adolphe Sax -- (a Belgian maker of musical instruments who invented the saxophone (1814-1894))
End of WordNet output for basketmaker.

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I still like the classy feeling of using the old terms even if you do have to look themup.
violin maker v.s. luthier
horse shoer v.s. farrier
basket maker v.s. ???

Sure. Why use a specific term when a more general one is available? Maybe you should've looked them up.

two for two on those links, Faldo. Maybe you should've checked them

Cribbed from a list online: basketman, fanwright, padmaker, ripper, rippier, swell maker trugger, whisket weaver, willow plaiter, willow weaver. Osier peelers (aka withy peelers) removed the bark from willow rods prior to the basket weaving. (Is V.S. an initialism for Vanilla Sky?)

trugger = a maker of trugs (OED2)
trugger = tree hugger (UD)

I think the latter has more of a future..

-joe (trug has several senses, one of which is a very specific kind of basket) friday

oh, and a corve (didn't notice at first) is a coal basket - another word without much future.

What does v.s. mean?

It means you're a better proofreader than I am.

...so I'm not as ignorant as I thought I was? Are you implying it's just a typo for vs.? I thought it might be some other abbreviated Latin term I didn't know!

I still prefer luthier and farrier (and I know a violin maker and horse shoer who do as well) but that is because I have romance in my soul (v.s. any ability to spell or type)


PS the farrier specialized in orthopedic shoes for horses.

A violin maker is a luthier but a luthier isn't necessarily a violin maker. I know a luthier. I'll ask him if he's ever made any violins.

Likewise a horse shoer can be a farrier but a farrier doesn't necessarily shoe horses.

Yes [exaggerated patience-e],I got that even before your previous post. As I said...

Not to be confused with the English surname Luther which comes from luter (a lute player) or the German surname Luther which comes from the Greek for 'liberator'...

Re: oh, and a corve (didn't notice at first) is a coal basket

a coal basket? vs a coal scuttle?

i like the old specific names for crafts too.
some are pretty simple, (glover!) others, a require a bit of thought--farrier and collier..
and there are different classes of work..
the collier (coal miner) vs the breaker--some one who works above ground breaking the coal into sized lumps-- (goose egg was one size as i recall.. but there were other sizes..(anyone?)

in textiles, there were the spinners (spinster when they worked from home)
weavers and fullers..

Yes, trugger will trug along a long time

Jackie! I miss the candlestickmaker in your elaborate list.
And it's running towards Christmas.

He is? Well, we'd better catch him, then!

Which reminds me, I need to go to the butcher's on the way home.

Basketman
Fanwright
Rippier
Swell Maker
Trugger
Willowweaver / willowplaiter
Whisket weaver
Vanneur

These are nice ones. Would it be asking to much if you could
spare a long search and tell what their business is about?

Rippier? Vanneur? Whisket weaver? Fanwright?

Allright, I got it. I'm a bit slow.