Fiber Coiled Basketry

Fiber Coiled Baskets are a great way to create pretty, functional items using easy to source materials. Your basket will be made of yarn and clothesline. It could easily be created using cloth strips or ribbon, anything that could be wound around a core. The core could also be jump rope, old tubing, etc.

Here is a video of the Fiber Coiled Basketry in process. This is the complete video, see below for videos specifically showing starting and ending techniques and a quick guide to creating the X’s to anchor your coils.

Here’s a link to the entire video on YouTube.

This video shows how to start and end your fiber coiled basket. This is a quick link for reference.

This video is an upclose video of creating the X’s to secure your coils.

If you want to download the historical information about basketry or the written direction transcript from the video, they are below.

Historical information on Basketry

Written Direction Transcript

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