TLE BASKETRY

• Basketry


  The craft of making objects by weaving or coiling together materials like grasses or twigs
• Basketry is an ancient craft that has been done by people around the world for thousands of years
• Basketry has enabled people to use available natural materials to make vessels for storage and for hauling water, or for use as other household goods, like furniture
• Some people have even made houses using basketry techniques
• Weaving


  1. Intertwining or interlacing of strands of material to make a whole object
• Types of weaving to create a basket

  • Coiling
  • Twining
  • Plaiting
• Coiling


  Uses two types of materials - the bundle (makes up the bulk of the basket and coils outward from the center) and the splint (wrapped around the bundle to hold it in place then poked through the previous layer of bundle with an awl)
• Twining


  Uses two types of material - the warp (makes the base and comes out like the spokes of a wheel) and the weft (wrapped around these spokes to create the basket)
• Plaiting


  Simply layering material over and under other pieces, the simplest type of weaving
• Every basket has a character that is largely determined by the kind of fiber used to make it
• Fibers


  Round, flexible, or flat. Round rods are usually woven among other round rods. Flat strips can be woven together or twisted around stiff rods. Grasses, crushed stems, or other flexible fibers are wrapped around each other to form a coil then the coil is stitched to itself in a rising spiral to form the basket sides
• Design of a basket


  • Based on existing baskets, photos of historic types, a particular purpose or use for the basket, or a size and shape required for practical uses or desired for decorative ones
  • Any pattern or coloration that may be worked into the shape of the basket
• Burden Basket


  • From the Ifugao Tribal people of Mountain Province, Luzon Island, Philippines
  • Doubles as a rain cape when inverted over the head
  • A wonderful old through-shaped bamboo and rattan
  • Old and hard to find
  • For transporting wet rice seedlings at transplanting time
• Storage Baskets


  Used for storage of household items such as clothes and blankets
• Winnowing Tray


  Used to separate rice from its hull
• Serving Tray


  Utilized as container of rice and other foods for consumption
• Uppig


  • Lunch basket
• Tagga-i


  • Rice basket
• Fish Trap


  Used for fishing along flowing streams
• Lig-o


  • Winnowing tray
• Personal Baskets


  • Small bags fitted beneath the arms to carry tobacco and other personal belongings
  • Baskets that serve as lunchbox carrying meals or other important items such as jewelry
• Tupil


  • Lunchbox
• Bukug


  • Basket bag
• Binga


  • Basket bag
• Bay`ung

  • Basket pouch
• Baby Carrier Basket


  Woven baskets where the child would be placed inside and it could be staked into the ground so the mother could gather materials or food in the area
• Pasiking


  The indigenous basket-backpack found among the various ethno-linguistic groups of Northern Luzon in the Philippines
• Pasiking designs


  • Have sacred allusions
  • Purely aesthetic
• Pasiking artifacts, whether handwoven traditionally or with contemporary variations, are considered exemplars of functional basketry in the Philippines and among Filipinos
• Bayong


  Bags originating from the Philippines made by weaving dried leaves
• Leaves used for making bayong

  • Buri leaves (Visayas)
  • Pandan leaves (Luzon)
• Other organic materials used in making bayong

  • Abaca
  • Bacbac
  • Karagumoy
  • Sabutan
  • Romblon
  • Tikog
• Plastic strips are also used as synthetic substitute for leaves in making bayong
• The use of Bayong is common among Filipinos going to wet markets especially in rural areas or provinces
• Recently the bayong is being promoted as an environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic shopping bags
• Food tray baskets


  Containers used to transport or gather food and other items