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Baleen basketry
Baleen basketry: coiled baskets woven from whale baleen (keratin) with carved walrus ivory finials, developed by Iñupiaq artisans in North Alaska after 1914 and now a collectible Alaska Native art form.
Banig
Banig is the Filipino handwoven sleeping or sitting mat, made from tikog, pandan, buri, or rattan; regional traditions include Tawi-Tawi's Badjao and Samal mats, the Maranao round mat, and Basey, Samar, the banig capital.
Basket
Basket: a container woven from plant materials such as wicker, cane, bamboo, straw, roots, or splints using coiling, twining, or plaiting; used for carrying, storage, and cultural expression worldwide.
Basket weaving
Basket weaving is the hand interlacing of plant materials such as reeds, grasses, bark, and roots into containers, mats, and other objects, using three basic techniques: coiling, twining, and plaiting.
Basketry in museum collections
Basketry in museum collections is the collecting, cataloging, display, and conservation of woven plant-fiber baskets, which serve as art, ethnographic record, and ancestral belongings for source communities.
Basketry Museum of the Roma
Basketry Museum of the Roma (Μουσείο Καλαθοπλεκτικής των Ρωμά), founded 1995 in Komotini and moved to Thrylorio in 2004, is an ethnological-technological museum of Roma basket-weaving with over 300 baskets from Thrace, the Balkans, and worldwide.
Braid
Braid: a narrow textile structure made by diagonally interlacing three or more strands of thread, wire, or fiber. One thread system unlike weaving; used for ropes, kumihimo cords, and composite reinforcement.
List of Native American artists
List of Native American artists: compiled registers of Indigenous artists of North America by nation and medium, spanning the New York State Museum's Haudenosaunee collection list, Wabanaki basketmakers, Cherokee rosters, SWAIA's Santa Fe Indian Market directory, and regional directories such as Great Basin Native Artists.
Museum of Anthropology at UBC
Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) in Vancouver, Canada: a public, research, and teaching museum founded in 1949, housed since 1976 in an Arthur Erickson building on Musqueam territory, with nearly 50,000 works and the finest collection of works by Bill Reid.
Ravenstail weaving
Ravenstail weaving (Tlingit: yéil koowú) is a Northwest Coast Indigenous finger-twined tradition of black-and-white geometric ceremonial robes, practiced until the early 1800s and revived in the 1980s.
Rope
Rope, also called fibre rope, is a thick, pliable cord formed when strands of fibers, yarns, or wires are twisted or braided together so it can bear weight.
Scoubidou
Scoubidou: a French craft of braiding colorful plastic cords into key chains and bracelets, started in the late 1950s and named after Sacha Distel's 1958 song; also called gimp or boondoggle, revived in the 2000s.
Twine
Twine is a light cordage of twisted or wound yarns, thinner than cord and rope (Cordage Institute: under 0.200 in / 5 mm), made from jute, sisal, cotton, or synthetics, used for nets, binding, and tying, with Paleolithic origins.
Wampum
Wampum (sewant, zewant): tubular purple and white shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands, made from whelk and quahog, used in diplomacy belts, as mnemonic treaty records, and as colonial currency.
Wicker
Wicker (wickerwork) is the weaving of thin flexible sticks, stems, or reeds, traditionally immature willow, into baskets and furniture; the word, from Scandinavian vikker (willow), names the technique, not a material.