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As part of the Gibsons Landing Fibre Festival, held during the week of August 13 - 19, 2001, Anna Billy taught a class in traditional cedar bark weaving. Workshop participants learned how to weave a cedar bark basket using plaiting and twining techniques of the centuries-old Coast Salish tradition. The bark was harvested for these baskets in the early spring. If done properly, the bark removal doesn't harm the cedar trees, making this a tree-friendly fibre craft. Cedar Rose made by Anna Billy Weaving with Cedar Bark Class The cedar bark is soaked in water until it is soft. The cedar strips are woven and then held in place by twining with narrow strips of rafia or cedar bark. The edge of the basket is finished by folding the bark over. It can be folded inside the basket or folded outside to create a decorative edge. The cedar bark can also be torn into narrow strips to create a fringe. More About Cedar Bark: Cedar Bark Traditional Gathering Methods An article from the U'Mista News describes the method for gathering cedar bark. Julie Joseph Julie Joseph is a member of the Ditidaht band and has been weaving with cedar bark for over 30 years. Lisa Tilford Haida basket weaver, Lisa Tilford, explains how she harvests cedar bark for spinning and weaving baskets. The Chilkat Blanket Chilkat blanket weaving originated with the Tsimshian people and spread to the Tlingit. Wool from goats was blended with cedar bark and dyed with lichen (wolf moss) for yellow, urine and hemlock bark for brown and copper and urine for blue/green. Cedar Bark Dyes I dyed some wool with cedar bark. Here's how.

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Splint Woven Basketry 30 elegant basket styles using splint materials--wood and grass pounded or split into flat strips. Shapes include traditional egg, melon, feather, cradle, oriole, shaker, and others. Natural Baskets Natural Baskets features baskets and garden ornaments of barks such as birch and red pine; grasses and leaves such as cattails, cornhusks, yucca, iris, and pine needles; vines such as red-twig dogwood, willow, and honeysuckle; and horsehair. Handmade Baskets: From Nature's Colourful Materials Handmade Baskets emphasizes collecting natural materials for basketry. The Art of Basketry This is a guide through basic and progressively more complex basketry techniques illustrated with Lonning’s rattan reed baskets. Twill Basketry: A Handbook of Designs Techniques, and Styles Basic blocks and diamond patterns as well as variations on the two; creating folded baskets, undulating twills and double weaving. Pine Needle Basketry: From Forest Floor to Finished Project Create picturesque pine needle baskets, miniatures, trays, pencil holders and more. Special sections address dyeing needles, making lids and handles, techniques, and gathering and storing materials. Indian Basket Weaving Basic techniques — preparation of the reed, splicing, introduction of color, shaping and finishing, more. Also descriptions of a great variety of weaves — Lazy Squaw, Mariposa, Taos, Shilo Hopi Basket Weaving: Artistry in Natural Fibers This book is filled with photographs and detailed descriptions of their beautiful baskets--the one art, above all others, that creates the strongest social bonds in Hopi life. In these pages, weavers open their lives to the outside world as a means of sharing an art form especially demanding of time and talent. The reader learns how plant materials are gathered in canyons and creek bottoms, close to home and far away. Appalachian White Oak Basketmaking: Handing Down Basket Baskets: A Book for Makers and Collectors This book offers inspiration and instruction, beginning with the tools and materials, basic techniques and dyes and continuing to various techniques. Handmade Baskets: 28 Beautiful Baskets to Make for Your Home A glossary of terms, descriptions and drawings of tools and materials, an explanation of weaving variations, and answers to technical questions. More Basketry books

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