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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in textiles.
In this project, you will create a woven basket from plant material like willow branches, bark, or vining plants. Harvesting or foraging plant material is encouraged but not required for this BB.
To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- make a woven basket
- minimum size: 4" across and 3" deep
To document your completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
- your raw materials
- your woven basket in-progress
- your completed woven basket showing it meets the minimum size
The completed woven basket might look something like this:
Here's an overview of the steps for making a locally sourced woven basket.
First, you need to collect local materials for basket weaving. This might be willow branches, sweetgrass, blackberry bramble stems, cedar bark, or another appropriate local material.
Willow branches for weaving:
Sweetgrass for weaving:
Blackberry bramble stems for weaving:
Collecting Cedar Bark for weaving:
Second, it will be necessary to make the material you have collected pliable for basket weaving.
Preparing willow branches:
Preparing Beargrass:
Preparing cedar bark:
Weaving a willow basket:
Weaving a blackberry bramble basket:
Weaving a cedar bark basket:
You now have a wonderful locally sourced woven basket that you have made yourself! :)
In this project, you will create a woven basket from plant material like willow branches, bark, or vining plants. Harvesting or foraging plant material is encouraged but not required for this BB.
To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- make a woven basket
- minimum size: 4" across and 3" deep
To document your completion of the BB, provide proof of the following as pics or video (less than two minutes):
- your raw materials
- your woven basket in-progress
- your completed woven basket showing it meets the minimum size
The completed woven basket might look something like this:
Here's an overview of the steps for making a locally sourced woven basket.
Step
1
Harvesting Local Materials
First, you need to collect local materials for basket weaving. This might be willow branches, sweetgrass, blackberry bramble stems, cedar bark, or another appropriate local material.
Willow branches for weaving:
Sweetgrass for weaving:
Blackberry bramble stems for weaving:
Collecting Cedar Bark for weaving:
Step
2
Prepare Your Material for Basket Weaving
Second, it will be necessary to make the material you have collected pliable for basket weaving.
Preparing willow branches:
Preparing Beargrass:
Preparing cedar bark:
Step
3
Weave Your Basket
Weaving a willow basket:
Weaving a blackberry bramble basket:
Weaving a cedar bark basket:
You now have a wonderful locally sourced woven basket that you have made yourself! :)
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Description: Piled on the ground")
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Description: Cutting the vines")
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Description: The wheelbarrow piled up")
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Description: First cut")
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Description: A start")
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Description: Finished basket")
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Description: In order of being made")
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Description: nettle patch")
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Description: Blackberries and nettle, now brocken with the rolling pin and the fibres removed")
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Description: Base woven")
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Description: Messily woven")
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Description: view of the bottom")
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Description: nettle on top, blackberry on the bottom")
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Description: home woven basket")
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Description: Blackberries. A bit old as the skin was difficult to get off whole, but it still works.")
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Description: I knock the thorns and branches off with the billhook, then crush the stems. After that the skin is fairly easy to peal off.")
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Description: That's the skins from three canes")
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Description: weaving in progress")
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Description: weaving a blackberry basket")
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Description: the base is done, now for the sides of the basket")
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Description: basket complete")
