Glossary

Awl pointed tool similar to an ice pick, used to make and hold openings in the weaving. Base the bottom of the basket. Braiding like plaiting, but using 3 or more strands of similar material to form a long continuous wide braid. Chase weave a weave that allows a continuous spiral on an even number of warps using the plaited techniques and twining with two wefts. This called chasing, after the fact that the twining chases the plaited weft around the basket. Coiling a simple stitched method of weaving where a thin weaver element is used to stitch spiral circles of a single or multiple strands such as a bunch of grass. Embrodery A technique used to decorate twined baskets in which a third, colored weft element is woven around the outer wefts, so that they are not visible on the inside of the basket. The woven embroidered weaver slants in an opposite direction to the rest of the twining and is worked in as the twining is woven. Rim top edge of a basket Spider also known as a basket Base, used as a training tool to demonstrate the different methods of weaving. Strand a weaver with no warp. Several strands can be braided together to make a braid. Twill a woven basket or mat where the wefts and warps are both flat and of similar strength that appears to look like a checkerboard at its plainest. Twining the oldest of all weaving techniques, employing two or more wefts that intertwine each other between warps. Warp also known as spokes, or the skeleton of the basket. Weft a length of material which interlaces warps. Also used for lashing.

k’áadu container woven from wide strips of cedar bark, fish basket kikwgyaa uu iijang. This is a basket. Gáal lid (of basket) Gáay inner bark or cambium of a good-sized cedar lagúus cedar bark mat sdláagwaal káadii basket for storing spoons sgisgál cedar rope, cedar withes sGajúudaal row of weaving, knitting or crotchet stlagáa bracelet sgahláang yellow cedar tlúuwaan hook wallet made of cedar bark ts’alaad a type of large basket ts’uu cedar tree yáalaang yellow cedar bark cape