My research aims to address questions related to the history of craft and technology by looking at the epistemology and knowledge economy of bamboo basket making in South India. Basket making, in a broader context, is a craft which is practiced across the globe. The handicrafts sector has played a crucial role in the Indian economy by providing employment as well as highly valued goods for local consumption as well as export, which can be traced back to antiquity. Most of the crafts, like spinning, weaving, painting and practices such as agriculture and navigation were learned by doing and making, where knowledge and skills are tightly interwoven. Craft practices were learned through apprenticeship within the family and kinship, where the material and the social networks of the actors were crucial in valorizing a craft. As Pamela H. Smith has pointed out, the historical sources are silent about the tacit aspect of most crafts while some, like goldsmithing in Europe, are easier to trace due to their higher social status in the guild hierarchy, their social network, and the social and economic value of the goods they created. Basketry and many other crafts have not received the same kind of attention and status, and left few traces in the records, though basketry has been an important everyday technology since prehistory.