Primitive basketry 1: Burdock coil basket 🧺
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ค. 2020
- When I saw Sally Pointers tutorial on how to process burdock fibers into a coil basket, I knew that this would be the first mission for my bone needles.
Watch her three-part series for in-depth instructions:
- • Burdock & Bramble Coil...
- • Burdock & Bramble Coil...
- • Prehistoric Nettle Tex...
The only thing I did differently was the use of a elderberry tube as a gauge instead of brass, otherwise I followed her recipe pretty closely.
I plan to use the baskets (so far I made two of them and I still have a lot of fibers left) to sort and store my flint flakes, as they tend to get lost easily.
Didn’t know that burdock was so Full of fibers! Good thing I have tons of that stuff
Excellent demonstration. There are many cordage demonstrations on TH-cam, but that's the first weaving I've seen. Now I want to try.
I also just watched Sally Pointers video on this topic!
Brilliant... Thanks for this I've loads of Burdock it's a beautiful plant but at times just in wrong place .. particularly those darn sticky buds 😂😂... This is a great use of it and bramble 😊
Wow, this is great, I have to try this. Thanks
Thanks very much for sharing this knowledge. I appreciate this.
I'll have to give this a go. Great work - Subscribed
Wow I love the tool you use to keep the fibers together. Gonna make one of those today
That was awesome
Very clear ... thank you .... we can do with strips of plastic bags as recycling ... Lot of thanks
You can make coil baskets out of many different materials, like grass, long pine needles, ivy branches ...
Beautiful
I really want to give this a go .. Love this stuff made from totally natural fibres
Let me know how it turned out! And you may want to check out Sally Pointers channel as well, I learned this technique from one of her videos. Link in the description!
@@MakeItPrimitive 😁🙏
Nice!
Parabéns!!!
You just gave me insight into something we find in museums. There are the bones with a hole in them that are called "spear shaft straighteners" or "arrow wrenches" and it seems hard to visualize how those tools could help much in that task. Hands and knees would be effective enough and the wrench would have to be removed whenever you wanted to sight down the shaft.
A 5/16" box end wrench can bend a willow hoop 1/2" thick into a 9" circle for underneath the head of a conga drum but not easily.
They might be like your ferrule you use for getting your core size right and they are basketry tools.
You're thinking of the antler "batons", right? Interesting idea, you could probably use them for something like this. However, I don't think this was their sole or primary purpose. For starters, they were clearly built for some heavy duty task, a task under which they often broke, usually all in the same way. A use as basketry gauge wouldn't cause such stress. Also, they seem to have been high-status items, which a humble basket-making tool probably wouldn't be.
A couple of interesting videos on this topic:
- th-cam.com/video/S2vuL3oZogc/w-d-xo.html This individual was buried with several items of high value, among them no less than four "batons".
- th-cam.com/video/1vdPtaZ10i0/w-d-xo.html In this video, arrows are straightened with heat from a fire. Simple bone segments protect the hands from the heat during this process. For atlatl darts and spears, more force (and heat) will be needed, so adding handles could make sense.
- th-cam.com/video/JNNRwZGX5LQ/w-d-xo.html Here, the batons are used as a sort of primitive zip tie for transporting goods.
Currently some research suggests that they might have been used in rope-making, which would fit to the spiral pattern that is sometimes found around the hole. However, this pattern seems to have been carved, not developed by wear, so I don't know what to think about that.
My guess is that they were multi-purpose tools, and making baskets might well have been one of these uses.
@@MakeItPrimitive Thank you so much for your thoughtful response. I haven't seen the videos yet but it sounds like they might have been rifling their spears. I know arrow vanes are sometimes (usually) rifled.
I don't know about coil baskets but there is an undercurrent to your response that you would hate to have to work with a ferrule with a handle no matter what. It would be clumsy. That, more than anything else, convinced me I was mistaken.
I have made more baskets myself, using blackberry vines I de-thorn and have been kind of cautious about making coil baskets because wickerwork baskets made of blackberry vines are useful laundry baskets and highly valued and make excellent gifts. But getting the raw material involves a lot of scratches.
Strangely, blackberries are an invasive weed in my area and people are only too happy to have me remove them. Yet when I have taken the best canes the blackberries seem to die back.
To make one laundry basket I will clear an area of 10' tall blackberries big enough to allow a pickup truck to park there. (That happened)
My mother in law told me after I made her a nice big laundry basket that I was not permitted to cut EVERY blackberry vine on her property but from her face when she said it it looked like she could not believe that she was having to tell her son in law not to cut ALL the blackberries.
Nasty as they are, Himalayan blackberries hide nice strips of knot-free real wood about 7 feet long and a quarter of an inch wide. Very nice, but can be hard to get.
an easier way to stitch it is to have the tail (the straggly ends) facing to the LEFT so that wrapping is easier rather than having to try to wrap around all those loose tails. you're welcome :-)
Thanks, I'll try it next time!
@@MakeItPrimitive awesome, you'll find it so much quicker. Thanks so much for replying. You're most kind. L x
Useful for gathering small items such as berries or nuts! I imagine it can be scaled up for a bigger basket with enough time and energy?
Sure - Chad Zuber made some bigger coil baskets in one of his recent videos. They do take quite some time to make, though.
@@MakeItPrimitive I had a feeling his videos might have inspired some of yours! Have you also read Primitive Technology’s book? I have seen some of those techniques on this channel too.
Palju Tänu!
Dakujem
It turned out beautifully. Some commentary would have been good for those of us just starting out. I got the gist of most of it but it would be easier if I wasn't guessing!
On all of my older videos (such as this one), you can turn on the subtitles (using the "CC" icon) for some explanations and commentary.
But I have since realized that most people don't notice this, so I have started baking my comments into the video itself.
@@MakeItPrimitive Thanks, I will do that :)
Very nice 🌹🌹💞
Can you do this with yucca fibers? Wondering how stiff the fibers need to be to be inserted in that tubs to feed into the coil of the basket?
beautiful/
Just fantastic. I'm wondering; could I possibly replace the berry brambles in this case with multiflora rose canes? Would they be as fibrous? Thanks a million.
I have no idea - but let me know when you found out ;-)
Lovely! How much time did it take you?
I don't really keep track of time, but I would estimate that if you started in the morning, you would be done in the evening (including burdock and bramble gathering and processing). With more experience probably a lot faster, of course.
Your editing is spectacular!! Did you have any experience with editing before your channel?
A bit of background in serious ameteur photography, but nothing video-related. But it's not hard, really - you'll get into it quickly!
Using a stone knife and sporting a hi tech watch on your wrist is the definitive oxymoron
Yep he should have hi tech knife and stone watch
こんにちは、繊細な作り方の籠もその骨針さんの初作品ですね、ちなみに何の動物の骨を削って完成させたのですか？。
I had made a smaller one before, to practice before I started filming.
I just... got an idea...
What if you used blackberry branches with lots of big spikes to thin out the fibers from the burdock, much like you would use a heckling comb for flax?
Interesting idea! It's not really necessary for burdock, as the fibers are already nicely ordered from processing. But you could try something like this on tangled fibers. Probably not with blackberry, though, because the thorns come off the branch too easily, so you'd might up with a still tangled bunch of fibers, but now with thorns in it. :-)
is there a forum for primitive bushcraft people
Head on over to the "Primitive Technology" forum on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/PrimitiveTechnology/
@@MakeItPrimitive dankeschön👍
A beautifully crafted example of how to use natural fibre to make a useful object.
Molim vas omogicite prevod na srpski bosanski ili hrvatski jezik !
и русский!
Make it primitive, take off your clothes too, your clock, your shoes, everything, and put the end of hypocrisy.