#basket weaving

[tigwalen]

ᎧᎦᎵ ᏔᎵᏍᎪᎯᏁ - Kagali Talsgohine - February 20th

Cherokee double wall basket (purse) - commercial round reed, commercial half oval reed, metal arrowhead accents, hand braided leather straps, turquoise button.

The basket in the first picture was one of the first purses I ever made. It was commissioned by someone however they never followed up with me or followed through so I kept it as my own. I was still very much learning a lot when I made that basket and it did not hold up well over time, the spines on the basket were apart too wide so eventually it became very loose.

I stopped wanting to take it anywhere because I didn't want it destroyed but, I wanted a purse with these colors and supplies is low so! when we had this snow day recently I decided to take the time, take the old basket apart, and make a new one. I also got to have a lot of fun trying the technique of weaving leather straps into the baskets themselves, I have typically used commercial reed for the handles but I find that they break over time. I was also very lucky to be able to make it so that the original lid both survived the deconstruction and fits the new basket ♥️

[callese]

PAM's Apology

[sunshineandrosesnoraincamemyway]

thinking today about how much I love literally all fiber arts. I am hopeless at almost every other kind of art, but as soon as there is thread, yarn, or string I can figure it out fairly quickly.

I learned how to knit when i was eight, started sewing at nine, my dad taught me rock climbing knots around that age, I figured out from a book how to make friendship bracelets, I've made my own drop spindle to make yarn with, and more recently I've picked up visible mending. I've learned embroidery through fixing my overalls, and this year I've learned how to darn and how to do sashiko (which I did for the first time today). After years of being unable to crochet I finally figured it out last night and made seven granny squares in just a few hours.

I want to learn every fiber art that I can. I want to quilt, I want to use a spinning wheel, I want to weave, I want to learn tatting, I want to learn how to weave a basket, I want to learn them all. If I could travel through time and meet anyone in the Bible, high on my list are the craftsmen who made the Tabernacle.

I want to travel the world and learn the fiber arts of every culture, from the gorgeous Mayan weaving in Guatemala, to the stunning batik of Java, to Kente in Ghana. I want to sit at the feet of experienced men and women and watch them do their craft expertly and learn from them.

Of every art form I've seen, it's fiber arts that tug most at my heartstrings.

[blue-nebraska]

wove my first basket at the river 🧺

ID: a photo of my hand holding a small basket of tan reed, with a river and trees in the background.

[arthistoryanimalia]

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :

Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with snake design

made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915

Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass

“Given to the Field Museum by a collector in 1923” 103499; Seen on display at the “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022

“My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it. The snake design became very popular; collectors started requesting it. You can really see the high quality, the craftsmanship of the weavers in these baskets.”

[vintage-sweden]

Men weaving birch bark baskets and braiding fishing line, 1922, Sweden.

[chasingrainbowsforever]

John Varvatos

[thrdnarrative]

Alebillah Azumah, a basket weaver, at work in Bolgatanga, Ghana

Courtesy of Baba Tree Basket Company [@babatreebaskets]

[jasperthehatchet]

My basket is done!!!!! She looks a little wonky but that's okay :)

I might make a lid for it

[Image ID: a picture of tightly rolled plastic wrapped with light brown yarn, forming a coil basket. Every inch or so the yarn is wrapped underneath the previous coil, anchoring it to itself to give it it's shape and hold it together. The basket is about the size of a ceramic bowl. End ID]

[clothocrafts]

First attempt at a kalathos basket, the type of basket often used by weavers/spinners in ancient greek art. Definitely will try making another one, but first I want try using it with my replica loom and drop spindle

[toyastales]

A gorgeous woven and fringe yellow dress

[tigwalen]

Rivercane storage basket - Eva Wolfe

The pattern is Cross on the Hill 2 or Stairway to Heaven.

The basket was woven upward from a square base with an overall diagonal design. The circumference of the basket tapers inward before flaring out again at the rim. A series of bands surrounds the top of the basket, alternating between walnut and bloodroot dyed cane.

The colors are from traditional native plants used to dye the rivercane. The dark brown is from walnut and the brighter orange from bloodroot. The basket was woven in a diagonal Cross on a Hill design; its neck and rim are encircled by a double Chain.

Eva Wolfe was born in 1922 and lived in the Soco community on the Qualla Boundary. She learned to make baskets from her mother and later learned the complex double weave technique.

[cadathecat]

whoever invented baskets will never know just how much i love them and that's a crime..

[abwwia]

Mary Jackson, Low Basket with Handle, 1999, sweetgrass, pine needles, and palmetto, 15 1⁄2 × 16 3⁄4 × 16 3⁄4 in. (39.4 × 42.5 × 42.5 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Marcia and Alan Docter, 2001.61

[mystic-crafting]

Basket number two, double walled this time!

[arthistoryanimalia]

Dog Effigy Basket, 1993

Made by Alice Juan, Tohono Oo' dham (Papago), Tucson, AZ, USA

Spotted on display at Carnegie Museum of Natural History (36067-1 a & b)