Threads 72: Another low tech idea

Maybe I am stretching the word basketry for this blog. But the museum was given this, and it really appealed to me. 

It was made at a  time when the lumbermen were working in the bush in deep snow, and coming back to the camp with wet socks! What a perfect way to hang them up to dry over the wood stove. The clever use of taking advantage of the shape of a pine tree, they cleverly used each branch to become a sock holder. They probably stripped off the bark in the spring, then heated it over a hot stove or used steam to carefully curl up each branch.

One of the visitors to the museum saw it and said he had seen the same design used in cheese making. It was quite a lot bigger, and the cheese maker could hold it in two hands and rub them together, making it twist and turn to beat up the cheese curds.