Coiled baskets in full size and miniature, including imbricated, Native American,
O'odham man-in-the-maze pattern, coiled willow, cattail, sweetgrass, palm, willow, sedge,
pine needle, cedar bark, brush sumac, some embellished with feathers, beads and shells.
Apache Basketry
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Butterfly Coiled Trays
Hopi Market.com offers
Hopi coil plaques and baskets from Second Mesa Villages of Shongopavi, Sipaulovi
and Mishongnovi. They are used for storage and carrying of corn kernels
and other goods.
Chinese
Knot Coiling Instructions
Baskets in Polynesia a book by Wendy Arbeit has been reproduced with
permission from the publisher in ebook format as part of the resources assembled
by Ethnomath.org. The book includes plaited basketry techniques from the South
Pacific. Diagrams for the Chinese knot (page 110), French braid and many types
of twill plaiting are included. The ebook is in .pdf format and you will need an
adobe reader to view it.
Kitty Chrysalis
Basketmaker from the Ozark Mountains of Missouri uses recycled, scrap electrical
copper wire, salvaged vinyl coated telephone wire and lampworked dichroic
glass beads to coil sculptural basketry.
Coiled Basketry Baby
Carrier 1050-1300 B.C.
Anasazi coiled baby carrier. Maybe this is the mother of all baby carriers.
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Coiled Basketry Classroom Pack
Teachers and instructors of beginning coiled basketmaking classes can
purchase all that they need to teach beginners the craft of coiled
basketry from Dick Blick. This kit includes enough material to make over
30 coiled baskets, each 4" high with a 5" top diameter. Trays, coasters,
and decorations can also be made from this pack.
Choose from 1800 yards
(48 oz) of assorted yarn in a variety of textures, and over 20 colors
including popular earth tones. The kit also includes 360 ft (about 110
meters) of ¼" diameter coiling core, 30 blunt large eye needles, and
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Coiled Baskets
An ever-changing selection of coiled baskets at auction or buy-it-now offerings
at eBay.com
Coiled Fabric Baskets
An entire page of resources to locate supplies for coiling fabric and fiber
baskets.
Coiled Gullah
Sweetgrass Basketry
A full range of resources about the coiled sweetgrass basketry tradition of
the South Carolina Lowcountry including Gullah basketmakers and the tradition of
sweetgrass basketry commonly found at roadside stands along Route 17 North in
Mt. Pleasant South Carolina near Charleston.
Craft Coiling Core
Looking for the soft white paper firm yet flexible cord that you use as a core
for coiled baskets? This fiber wrapped craft cord
designed for coiled basket projects is available in 1/4", 1/2" and 3/4" sizes.
Hopi Basketry Second Mesa Style
Hopi women continue a centuries-long tradition of coiled basketry. Colorful
katsina, animal and geometric designs include symbolism and tradition.
American Indian Baskets I
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Marilyn
Moore
Known to many because of her active conference teaching schedule this Seattle, WA fiber
artist works in coiled pine needle as well as twined wire with bead embellishment.
Debora
Muhl
Basket artist from Spinnerstown, PA. Specializes in sculptural coiled baskets of natural
materials including sweetgrass.
Native American
Coil Basketry
NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art offers photos of various coiled
basket forms and links to directions on coiling techniques.
Navajo
Ceremonial Baskets
Navajo baskets are usually made with a two-rod-and-bundle-coiled technique of
sumac and yucca. Natural materials are used to dye the material.
O'odham
Coiled Willow Baskets
From the collection of the Arizona State Museum, three stunning coiled willow,
devil's claw and cattail baskets from the early 1900's.
American Indian Baskets II
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Paiute
Miniature Covered Basket
This very small coiled basket of willow and devil's claw was created around
1920–1930. It is in the Illinois State Museum Collection.
Pomo
Fancy Baskets
Coiled baskets of willow, sedge embellished with feathers, beads or shells.
Made by the Pomo for gifts or ceremonies.
Peggy Wiedemann
This basket artist from
Huntington Beach, CA uses natural fibers and gourds to create coiled sculptural
baskets. She personally gathers many of her materials, such as pine needles and
palm fibers. To these natural materials, she adds metal, beads and “found”
objects to form unique pieces. Using these traditional materials and the classic
basketry technique of coiling in unorthodox ways, she creates pieces uniquely
hers.
Western
Apache Coiled Baskets
Basketry bowls, burden baskets, canteens and jars using native material such as
sumac, yucca, willow and devil's claw (martynia). From The Millicent Rogers
Museum.
Elizabeth Whyte Schulze
This Worthington, MA artist creates contemporary basketry sculpture by coiling natural materials
such as pine needles, reed and raffia, into varied shapes. Once
each basket is completed she covers the surface with acrylic paint using dots, washes, stylized human figures and marks often inspired by petroglyphs (ancient markings pecked on stone).
She exhibits in juried shows nationally and her work is represented in prominent galleries such as
Jane Sauer Gallery,
Mobilia Gallery,
James Gallery and
Del Mano Gallery.
She teaches workshops and delivers lectures on basketry at locations
including Snow Farm,
Fuller Craft
Museum and
Fiber Arts Center.
