Basketweaving Paradise
Simple step-by-step procedures to help you to learn basic techniques useful in your basket making, marketing your baskets, building and caring for your basket collection or developing as a basket artist. Some have links to related (and more comprehensive) articles or NetLinks pages.
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How to Turn Down and Tuck Basket Spokes
- When the body of the basket is complete you should give the spoke ends a trim so that they are all an even height. Cut them long enough to turn down and tuck into at least two rows of weaving.
- Fill a basin with just enough water so that the basket can be turned upside down and set in water that is just deep enough to wet the spoke ends that are beyond the weaving and the false rim.
- Allow the spoke ends to soak until they are flexible, but don't get the weaving wet.
- Turn down each outside spoke to the inside of the basket and tuck into several rows of weaving.
- Trim off each spoke that is on the inside of the last weaver or false rim, level with the top of the false rim.
How to Pound A Black Ash Log Into Woodsplints
Black ash (Fraxinus nigra) is a ring porous wood that can be pounded apart into woodsplints each as thick as an annual growth ring of the tree. These splints are used as basketry materials.