Chopsticks, pair, wood with shaved decoration, used in the Ainu bear ceremony: Japan, Hokkaido, Ainu, 19th to early 20th century

Basket tray of willow: Korea, ca. 1840

Spear with iron ogee-shaped head with four barbs on long tang, and thin wooden shaft seized at junction with willow plaiting: Africa, Malawi

Basket-jar of globular shape, of willow twined on horizontal twigs, with black chevron and line pattern: Africa: Southern Africa, Zimbabwe or Zambia, Lozi people

Lid for basket-jar of globular shape, of willow twined on horizontal twigs: Africa: Southern Africa, Zimbabwe or Zambia, Lozi people

Basket or pannier made from willow, joined with wire, the outer rim is bound with blue plastic-coated wire and the inner surface is formed from circular and rectangular coils of willow, some stripped, held together by a spiral of tightly coiled steel spring: British, London, by Lois Walpole, 2005

Three-lugged quaich of walnut with silver mounting, the body of feathered stave construction and bound with split willow withies: Scottish, possibly Inverness, Possibly Alexander Fraser, c. 1680

Willow ball with fibre optic lighting, entitled Heart, the work suspended from the ceiling and resembling an explosion: Scottish, by Lizzie Farey, 2006