Primitive basketry 1: Burdock coil basket 🧺 

You can make coil baskets out of many different materials, like grass, long pine needles, ivy branches ...

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!

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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: - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S2vuL3oZogc.html This individual was buried with several items of high value, among them no less than four "batons". - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1vdPtaZ10i0.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. - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JNNRwZGX5LQ.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.

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.

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

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 :)

I have no idea - but let me know when you found out ;-)

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.

A bit of background in serious ameteur photography, but nothing video-related. But it's not hard, really - you'll get into it quickly!

Yep he should have hi tech knife and stone watch

I had made a smaller one before, to practice before I started filming.

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A beautifully crafted example of how to use natural fibre to make a useful object.

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. :-)

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