Basket-weaving

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Basket-weaving

• Traditions and methods

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Basket-weaving

• Basket-weaving is one of the oldest known Native
  American crafts--there are ancient Indian baskets
  from the Southwest that have been identified by
  archaeologists as nearly 8000 years old.
• As with most Native American art, there were
  originally multiple distinct basketry traditions
  in North America. Different tribes used different
  materials, weaving techniques, basket shapes, and
  characteristic patterns

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Northeast Native American baskets

• traditionally made out of pounded ash splints or
  braided sweetgrass

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Southeast Native American baskets

• traditionally from bundled pine needles or
  rivercane wicker.

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Northwest Native American Basketstypically woven
with cedar bark, swamp grass, and spruce root.
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Southwest Native American Baskets

• Southwest and California Indians make baskets
  from tightly coiled sumac, yucca, or willow wood.
  
• Hopi, Navajo, Apache and Tohono O'odam (Papago)
  produce the hand-woven baskets that we use as a
  selection base

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Traditions

• Passed down by the women in the family
• In earlier days, baskets accompanied Native
  American people throughout their lives
• Babies were carried in baskets, meals were
  prepared and cooked in them, worldly goods were
  stored in them, and people were buried in them.

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Basket-weaving Today

• Today, baskets serve as markers of cultural pride
  and inheritance. Some are used on religious
  occasions. Currently, hundreds of weavers make
  baskets for sale.

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Weaving techniques

• Basket weaving techniquesFour basic weaving
  techniques are used to construct baskets wicker,
  plaiting, twining, and coiling

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Wicker Weavingtraditional over-under style of
weaving
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Plaiting weaving technique
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Twining weaving technique
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Coiling

• Coiling begins at the center of a basket and
  grows upon itself in spiral rounds, each attached
  to the round before
• In coiling, designs are not made by changing the
  weave, but rather by using a different color
  sewing thread.

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Native American Coil Baskets
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Examples of what we will be doing for our coil
baskets
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• What elements of art pertain to this project?
• Use the elements to sketch ideas for your basket
  in your sketchbook.
• Take a few minutes to look through the yarn
  choices before sketching

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Lets watch how to start our basket!

• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vaxl_m22y98c