How to Make a Traditional Woven Basket from a Tree | Short Film Showcase
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- Using the tools of his late father, Stephen Jerome continues the traditional indigenous art of basket making in this meditative short by filmmaker Heather Condo. Watch the entire process unfold, from chopping down the tree in the forest to weaving in the last element in the studio.
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How to Make a Traditional Woven Basket from a Tree | Short Film Showcase
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For Stephen Jerome, basket-weaving is a unique Mik'maq tradition that has been passed down for generations in his family. What interests you the most about this master basket-maker?
What type of tree did he use?
Every season in Canada , has its unique activity.
afroCENTRIKrafter He use Black Ash a Friend of Stephen Jerome 🇨🇦⚓️
I'm amazed at his strength and precision in making ribbed baskets. That and that he he does everything himself, from the tree trunk to the end product.
@@afrocentrikrafter2967 Меня тоже интересует какое дерево он использует?
Smell the wood, smell it
This video illustrates the virtue of sharp tools!
So many skills we take for granted, on this earth that are a disappearing. Glad to see this one preserved.
Here in India, we use bamboo. It grows quickly and when one is cut down, no significant damage is caused to the environment
In Europe there's no native bamboo. We mainly use willow wickers it grows fast too, but I've seen baskets woven from birch both wickers and bark, hazel, reeds, junipers, conifer roots and many others.
I really respect what he's created and how he did so, pretty dope skill
Mk S. 100 percent agree!
not easy either, i've tried it with dried flax & yucca leaves
Must be somewhere in Nova Scotia Canada were Mi'kmaq people live.
In our country we call this sort of baskets "potato baskets" as they mostly are used in picking potato crop. But we make them from split willow twigs or (in rare ocasions) weaving is done with spruce roots. I myself made several of them. Here I think they guy uses ash splits. Extremely beutiful!
people use ''ratan'' in my country and its more sturdy and flexible , so its easier to bend .
Gescapegiag, Canada
Nice, I just learned something new today. I like this hope you guys post more similar to this.
Wow! What a craftsman. I'd definitely buy that.
can yall do something better and stop hating on him
The craft is amazing. But the filming style was shot way too close and a little off from the center of the action. It's difficult to see what his hands are actually doing.
He's got other videos he did himself. He works fast. Showing off seems like. There are more vids on this subject on youtube. Look for pounding black ash , adirondack baskets etc.
okay, first of all he picked ONE specific tree (either it's mature enough to be cut down or else), and he made it by himself oh and he uses his own product. Not like you who just whining on trees being cut down and buying stuff from store and claiming that you try saving the earth.
I love wildlife and I love animals especially birds
0% complete, 1% complete, 96% complete, 97% complete.
Does anyone recognise\know the name of the tree that he used?
Looked like a walnut ,to me.
George.
Thanks tirpitz19, I think you're right.
It is black ash or in Maine they call brown ash ( i think). There are more videos of Jerome and others showing his way and more traditional ways. I use a small sledge hammer and pound the billets. Many pound the log with hammer or axe poll. I sell strips on ebay as well as sticks to pound your own. If your up north look for ash trees growing in a wet area. It's probably black ash.
As a basket weaver myself I can confirm that this dude makes the process to deceptively easy
You literally can’t post anything on TH-cam without people getting triggered lmao
It's sad
Your comment triggers me
Totigerus your millennium attitude is going to ruin you life.
Mark Romero this also triggers me
Hi there. I see that you recently held a basket making workshop in Queens county. Is it possible for you to provide a workshop in Lunenburg County?
Thanks, Claire
Women back then: Be impressed with a basket made outta tree. 👩🏻
Women now: Kill a crocodile and make me a Gucci bag to prove your love! ❤️ 🌚
"Why did you kill only one crocodile? Don't you love me? I wanted all crocodiles dead."
Traditional woven basket - using machines and saws and axes nails and hammers lmao Also, the video hardly shows you anything about how it's made just lots of close up shots with little content.
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good
yeah thanks looks beautiful have no clue how to do it, stupid and not teaching anyone anything.
Amazing skill. I do hope he gets more than one basket out of that whole tree. Otherwise the term ‘pyrrhic victory’ comes to mind.
I love it! ❤ Birch baskets! What a forgotten art! ❤Thanks, @National Geographic! ❤ Still keeping it real! 😉
Very nice video! Love seeing all the specialised tools. Thanks for sharing!!
Best video I've ever seen on basket weaving! Thank you.
Les mains qui l'a orfèvrerie
Wow! Fantastic
Like use it on your shop
Lovely! I wish it had had more detail and had been longer! :)
He has some short videos of his shop and there are many basket video on the Tube. Check out Jill Choates
To those who keep commenting about all the ‘waste of the tree’ - they only documented him making the one basket... that doesn’t mean that he didn’t go back get the rest of the tree and make more ... and he probably made MANY more from the small part of the tree he was able to carry back in his first trip. Native Americans wasted nothing!
This is so beautiful. I love how there are no words.
So much more finesse than my plastic basket!
The exact same thing i thought and its also biodegradable and more durable .although at a higher price this basket has almost everything going for it
Now, I wonder how they make them nowadays
That's how they're still made. Some pack basket are made with sawn maple. Highly inferior.
Step One: Buy all of the tools. Should take a month and the rest of your savings
saw and a sledge hammer or an axe. He runs a basket shop business and does it for a living.
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5:18
I suppose I exaggerated, but this isn't something you can just go out and do
@@littlebitfix4511 I did, but I already had most anyway. I also live where the tree grows and like learning new skills. Believe me, you do not want to try earn a living doing this. An adirondack pack takes about a week to make by hand. They should bring 3-400 dollars. You can't get $150. I know you were just tryin to be funny.
Thx for understanding, sorry for any insensitivity
WoW..... 💜
what kind of wood is this?
black ash or some call brown ash. Grows in wet areas. In central NY state the ash borer is killing them like crazy. Around Rochester ever swampy area is full of dead trees. Those are the ones those baskets are made from. Tool handles used to be until fiberglass replaced and destroyed the industry.
Nyapo ragae pring utowo rotan bro.. Lueh murah ketok e, takok tok aku. Ora kok protes..
Amazing! This could come in handy durin a survival situation
new zealand been doing it for hundreds of years, but with dried flax leaves. Look up flax weaving or hala weaving, "hala" is another name for the pandanus tree
Yes having a basket will save your life
if its a survival situation you wont have those tools and if you do have those kind of tools its not much of a survival an a basket is the first concern you have on your mind because it can obviously save your life
the skill would. you probably wouldn't do a black ash basket but a fish trap from willow would be doable.
Wow beautiful 💖
where is this from ?
North east north america. I think the micmac are Ontario Canada. Not positive though.
In Indonesia we made the basket from bamboo or rotan (idk the english)
How much?
that tree just splits itself????
after you used the shaving horse to make that plank, he would put in water and hit it until the age rings split. then use a drawknife to split into strips.
No. Pound on the log is the traditional way. He splits out a billet ( stick) Shaves it down with drawknife ( optional) . You can shave it down with a regular knife then pound it with a hammer. The video and the power hammer only shows the last part of the process. It takes about an hour of pounding by hand to separate one stick. He's using a blacksmiths power hammer.
wow..my life is complete in this looney bin..i can now weave baskets..lol..thank you
👏👏👏True form of craftsmanship.👏👏👏👏
wow. The end result was very impressive. I didn't know wood baskets were made like this, the tools etc.
Esse sim hem. perfeição, deus abençoe esse seu talento, só gostaria q tivesse opçao de legenda. aqui do brasil. parabens. 🙏🙌
This is beautiful. Why did he smell the tree before he took it? "Smell before you fell." 😊
The smell determines If it’s a good basket tree. If it is, it smells sweet like sugar or wine!
Yeah my stuff here in Australia is made in China :(
I would have gotten so many splinters in my skin :(
Wow, masha' Allah.
He's very creative!
o.o Wow, didn't think it took so much to make a basket :o Beautiful.
Awesome! Always learning new things with NatGeo ✌
Wow! This is beautiful craftsmanship!
A derivitive of primitive technology
wtf thats cool af. rock on my micmac cousins
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Idk why but that made me laugh 😂
wow, just amazing
I badly want to learn that craft.
Is this also an ASMR video?
i love national geographic
Best thing can happen to a tree .
I find this very impressive!! But i also can’t help but feel a little sad about the tree.......
@@timothylongmore7325 wow someone actually took a small amount of time out of their day to reply to a comment i made 2 years ago i feel so special
@@klcg.6078 I apoligize. One should feel something when they cut a tree. It did go to a good use and native people treat their land with a lot more love than most people on this planet do. Again , I'm sorry for my snarky reply.
@@timothylongmore7325 you’re forgiven, it takes a lot of effort to apologize for something!! Thank you for apologizing!! Hope you have a good day!!
Amazing Video! Was that an Oak tree ?
black ash
Please tell me he used the rest of that tree as well.
yes dear they don't waste things. That tree probably made a hundred baskets that will be treasured by their owners for generations. Native ( and other smart people) don't usually waste anything. Natives ( and smart people) gives thanks for things they take from nature and don't destroy were they live ( earth), like most modern people do.
I'll give you 3.50
He cute soo fine finesse ?
how many baskets per tree? please dont tell me just the one?
No, but they made the video seem to be the story of one basket.
Probably a dozen or more from the one log. No doubt he got two more logs out of that pole. Nothing is wasted. These trees also get a lot bigger. This was just a demonstration I'm sure. The one stick he pounded was almost enough for one basket.
Such a beautiful video
absolutely beautiful =)
Amazing Stamina 👍👍👍
Wow!! Just WOW!
mr sniffs approves
Well. Alright.
Simply amazing!
Beautiful a true art
Wow that was amazing
Traditional? Natives had electric and modern tools?
They do now. The process is pretty much the same
The title was a little misleading but he's trying to make a buck. There are some more guys videos on the subject doing it more traditionally, but you probably already knew that. There is one guy who pounds the logs out in the woods. I believe he's native american but I 'm not sure what tribe.
He's an artist
Too much!!!
nice
Well done NG.
awesome
WOW
Like it.
Skills!
Incredible
Wow
good
UPLOADDDD
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Killing tree.
Omg upload
I LOVE U NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICCCCC
BTW, a helpful and non confrontational reply might have just answered my question instead of putting me down for my blatantly expressed "limited knowledge." Thanks. ;)
The primitive technology guy really let himself go.
WOW!!Awesome
That was a long straight tree you could have done a lot more than chop it up and small pieces
You're ignorant lol
90% of the tree is literally wasted wtf
Max Sofronov -- they only showed him making one! If I know my Native Americans - they waste nothing!