Wickerwork Singlestick
Underwater Baskethilt Weaving…
This is one of a pair of singlestick baskets I purchased from a British fencing master in the late 1990′s. They are impossible to date, but I would love to peg them at the turn of the last century. Then again, they could be replicas made in the late 20th century.
Unless a reader sets me straight, we’ll never know!
I also purchased some very similar baskets in the late 1990s, in Edinburgh. I was told that they were made by a local blind persons’ society, so presumably they were of fairly modern manufacture. The main difference was that there was no hole in the centre of the guard.