Weave a basket - PEP BB textile.sand.basket

gir bot · May 07, 2025 20:35:34

I made a willow basket for this BB.

Oh man I learned a lot by doing this. For starters, I had no sense of what size branches to grab. I also realized that a small pair of trimmers would have been better than the hedge clippers I was using. I figured out that I did the turn up to the sides wrong and I think it would have been useful to use thinner branches for the bottom, thicker branches to help hold it together as I tried to get the sides to go up, and then medium sized branches for the rest of it. I had trouble keeping the branches down, especially where I had multiple sized of branches. I also kept having breakages, although that didn't happen as much as I thought it would. I also finally figured out the right size of branch and which tree was the best one to harvest from.

gir bot · Dec 03, 2025 11:32:42

I've done pine needle basketry before, but never a successful woven basket. For some reason, I thought I'd jump in the deep end and start with a huge backpack harvest basket (there is a blue clothes peg in the second image to give you an idea of scale) - it's 38cm/14in wide and 50cm/20in tall and done with a patterned openwork weaving in harakeke / New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax)

gir bot · Mar 10, 2026 15:21:56

I made a basket today! It’s not quite as pretty as some that the others have submitted, but I think it’ll be functional

I used green willow branches from a giant willow along a canal just a couple miles from my house. After multiple failed attempts, I finally got a roundish shape and slowly fell into a rhythm of weaving. The tools I used was a pocket knife, pruning scissors, and a flathead screwdriver.

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