Natural Basketry Materials, whether you are looking for black ash, birch bark, cedar
bark, willow cuttings, devil's claws, pine needles, gourds, basswood, milkweed, sweetflag,
bullrush, cattail, sedge, spruce root or any of many other materials for basketry you will
find direction here.
Natural Basketry Materials: Antlers
Deer, moose,
elk antlers by the pound, antelope horns, drilled antler buttons, slices, points
and scrimshaw antler. Antler Baskets, Antler Basketmakers and Antler
Basketry Supplies
Natural Basketmaking Materials: Baleen
Baskets made of baleen, the black fiber filtering system from the mouth of a baleen
whale. Many of these baskets are coiled and lidded with carved ivory as decoration.
Natural Basketweaving Materials:
Bamboo
General background of Bamboo Basketry. How to grow bamboo as a basketry material. How
to prepare it for weavers. Making a bamboo basket. Weave patterns and master basketmakers.
Natural Basketry Materials:
Black Ash Woodsplint
Plant identification, cultivating, harvesting and processing
Black Ash (Fraxinus nigra) as a natural material used for basketmaking.
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Native American Ethnobotony
A compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other
things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical
knowledge on more than 4000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented here. |
Natural
Basketweaving Materials:
Cattail
Plant profile of cattail, harvesting, preparation and use in basketry.
Natural Basketmaking Materials:
Cedar
Essays on the historical significance of cedar, general background of cedar bark
basketry, cedar baskets, basketmakers specializing in cedar basketmaking, as well as
harvesting and preparation of red and yellow cedar.
Natural Materials
For Making Baskets : Devil's Claw
Information on the plant Devil's Claw Proboscidea parviflora ssp. parviflora. How
it grows, how it is processed and used in basketry.
Natural Materials: General Plant Info
General plant information sources for native natural materials used in basketmaking.
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Fibre
Basketry - Homegrown and Handmade
by Fibre Basket Weavers of S. Australia Inc.
Native and introduced plants of Australia (most of which can be found in The United
States) are described. Suggestions on how to prepare and use them in basketry are offered.
Over 200 excellent photographs and drawings illustrate baskets, materials and techniques.
Hardcover.
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Natural Materials For
Weaving Baskets: Gourds
Gourds For Basketmaking general background information, gourd basketmakers,
mailing lists, forums and events.
Natural Materials Used
in Basketmaking:
Horsehair
Bundles of horse
hair by the pound and by the ounce in natural and dyed colors to be used as basketry
supplies in twined or coiled baskets.
Natural Materials for
Coiling Baskets:
Pine Needles
Wide selection of pine needle basketry resources including supplies, books, techniques,
projects, tutorials and connections to pine needle basketmakers.
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Natural
Baskets
by Maryanne Gillooly (Editor)
More than 20 projects, with some suitable for the novice basketmaker, covering techniques
of weaving, twining, coiling, braiding and stitching of natural materials gathered from
gardens, fields and woods. Paperback book.
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Natural Basketry Materials : Rattan / Reed
Find out about how basket reed is produced from the core of a thorny palm (mostly genera Calamus, Daemonorops or Plectomia) which grows like
a vine into the forest canopy of the jungles of South East Asia and Indonesia
and is imported for use in basketmaking.
Natural Basketry
Materials: Rivercane
Description of the process of the harvest and processing of
rivercane for use in basketweaving, along with many rivercane basketry
resources.
Natural Basketry Materials:
Sweetgrass (Hierochlöe odorata)
Plant information, distribution, harvesting instructions, photos and much more info on this useful
grass used in northeast Native American Indian basketry.
Natural Basketry
Materials: Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes)
The variety of sweetgrass used in coiled baskets made in the area
around Mt. Pleasant South
Carolina near Charleston.
Natural Basketry Materials: White
Oak (Quercus alba)
Split, drawn, rived and woven white oak woodsplint
made by traditional and contemporary basketmakers.
Natural Materials Used
in Basketry: Willow Plant Info
Information on willow as a native natural plant material for basketmaking. Plant
identification, culture of willow, harvesting and processing.
