Those magazine bowls are cute. They are like the baskets a friend of mine used to make from old clothing. Wish I knew now how she made ‘em, now that I’m into being frugal and not throwing anything away!<<<
There are several ways to make the cloth baskets, or even rope works.
You can make the cloth strips and tack them down with a needle, you will need to wrap the thread around the cloth to get it to hold its form.
Or use wood or wire and use the cloth as weaving material, as you would with regular baskets.
Or experiment with crochet, a slipstich or a single crochet, that allows the cloth to be in the middle of the stitch will work.
You can single crochet enough stitches over a rope the cover the rope and join it too, as you form the basket..
Or leave the rope / cloth exposed and use only enough stitches to shape it into a basket.
I think the crocheting is what Phyllis used to do to make her rag baskets.
She was so neat. I used to go over to her house and we’d do puzzles for the whole afternoon while listening to WWII music. I loved her stories of growing up in the depression and then working in a factory during the war. With not a note of pity or anything - just that that was the way it was and everyone made do. What a great generation.