Shaker Cheese Basket

The Shakers used this to age rounds of cheese.  The base is a hexagon with hexagon openings and  as the sides are woven it becomes  round.  Very architectural looking  but extremely confusing to make.  These baskets can be made in many shapes like a triangle or long  oval as in a bread basket.

It isn’t a very strong basket so it’s limited in it’s uses but I think my cat would love laying in it and poking his paws through the openings.  It’s used most often as a decorative object hanging on a wall.