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Basket Weaving for Beginners

About Basket Weaving

There are few arts with longer or more global histories than basket weaving. Pre-dating pottery, baskets were useful for Neolithic hunters and gatherers. Over the millennium, woven containers and furniture became important throughout global cultures for spiritual and aesthetic reasons.

Today, basketry is an important and useful cultural practice in many societies. There are countless materials which can be woven into containers of varying size and designs. Basketry artists spend decades refining their craft, but basket weaving is also approachable and satisfying for beginners.

The earliest potential evidence of woven baskets dates back to circa 25,000 BCE. Archeologists discovered Stone Age clay imprints of tightly woven material at the ancient Pavlov site in the Czech Republic. While the exact use of the woven material is unclear, the technology for basketry was clearly known. Other early imprints—and even actual fragments—of baskets have been found at Neolithic sites located in the Middle East and Kenya. Carbon dating has been used to date remaining fragments; however, the decay in natural weaving materials has probably erased evidence of the earliest basketry. Continue reading from My Modern Met

Check out a Basket Weaving Book

Link to Baskets : projects, techniques and inspirational designs for you and your home by Tabara Ndiaye in the Catalog
Link to Indian Basket Weaving by The Navajo School of Indian Basketry in Hoopla
Link to Baskets For All by Various Authors in Hoopla
Link to Dualso Basketry by Anonymous in Hoopla
Link to The Mad Weave Book by Shereen LaPlantz in Freeding