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Basket weaving (also basketry, basket making, or basketmaking) is the process of weaving unspun vegetable fibres into a basket or other similar form. People and artists who weave baskets are called basketmakers and basket weavers.
Basketry is made from a variety of fibrous or pliable materials•anything that will bend and form a shape. Examples include pine straw, stems, animal hair, hide, grasses, thread, and wood.
Basketry Comes in Four Types:
- "Coiled" basketry - using grasses and rushes
- "Plaiting" basketry - using materials that are wide and ribbon-like, such as palms, yucca or New Zealand flax
- "Twining" basketry - using materials from roots and tree bark. Twining actually refers to a weaving technique where two or more flexible weaving elements ("weavers") cross each other as they weave through the stiffer radial spokes.
- "Wicker" and "Splint" basketry - using reed, cane, willow, oak, and ash
More About Basketry:
- Natural Vine Baskets
- California Indian Basketweavers Association . website
- The National Basketry Organization
- The Book of English Trades, and Library of the Useful Arts, page 17-22 Google Books
- Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4, page 132-135 Google Books
- Spons' Workshop: Basket hand-making
Video About Basketry:
- Basketry: Swill Memories
- Jane Wilkinson Teaches Basket Making
- Making Traditional Irish Flask
- Basket Making in Mapaki, Sierra Leone
- Pine Needle Basket Maker
- Sweetgrass Basket Weaving
- Prepare Yucca Fillamentosa for Basket Weaving
- How to make split white oak baskets
- Native American Basket Makers From Great Basin
- Julia Parker's Baskets
- Alicia Nelson's Baskets
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