![]() It will come as no surprise that making your own coil basket involves very much more preparation time than it does actually ‘making’. The ‘foundation’ material – the stuff that makes up the snake-like coil – can equally come from a huge range of plants, from agriculturally produced cereal straws such as rye, wheat and barley, to wild grasses such as Cocksfoot, Sweetgrass, rushes, Coarse meadow grass and sedge. ![]() The binding can be made from bramble wood, willow, pine tree roots, bamboo and a range of other woody, fast growing species. It may very well have found its technique borrowed by our earliest potters who imitated the coiling method with clay to build up the walls of their pots.īut one of the best things about coil baskets is that the materials for their manufacture are to be found everywhere. ![]() Forms of traditional coil basket making can be found on every continent and it represents one of humankind’s earliest crafts. ![]()
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