Basket Making - A Flanagan Company

Basket Making

This Booklet of basket making instructions was produced b the A. Flanagan Company of Chicago sometime in the 1920’s. I have included it here because it shows details of how baskets are made. IT also includes pictures that show how baskets made by non-Native Americans almost 100 …

Basket Making – How to do it.

T Vernette Morse

Materials and Terms

Descriptions of Working Designs

Descriptions of Raffia Designs

Descriptions of Baskets.

Basket Making Materials & Terms

MATERIALS
The materials can be obtained at any reliable seed store or basket factory. They consist of reed, numbered from 1 to 8, according to the size. Number 1 is the smallest, about the size of a large knitting needle. Number 8 the largest size. For small baskets …

AMOUNT OF MATERIAL

The average amount of material required for a reed basket, may be estimated by measuring across the bottom of the basket and its height.

The spokes should he long enough to extend up both sides of the basket and across the bottom.

If the ‘basket …

Fig. 10 is a knot which may be used as a handle, by slipping the ends down by the side of the spokes as in Fig. 5, and fastening them securely by slipping
them in between the weavers, on the same principle as the splicing in Fig. 9. Use a knitting needle …

spokes will be firmly fixed in place. Fig. 2 is the same as Fig. 1 except that it illustrates how to insert the extra spoke and the manner in which the single weaver should be used.

Fig. 3 is for a large basket, having twelve spokes instead of six. The spokes are …

Side weavers are of narrow splints The decorative design at the top and bottom is made by using an extra weaver of another color, passing it under giving two turns to the rioli passing it beneath 2, again turning it twice to the right and passing it beneath 3, two turns …