>Weaving:Yurok Native American Tribe

coiling


twining

plaiting

Yurok Pot


warp/weft chart

The above diagram quickly demonstrates the array of materials and strategies that one tribe, the Yurok located in the northern Californian Mountains, uses for its basket design strategies. There are hundreds of Native American tribes, each with their own culture that shapes the nature of their basket weaving. However some general parallels can be made-each tribe utilizes some form of warp and weft weaving. More specifically coiling, twining, and plaiting are common, time tested techniques. The specific materials may change from tribe to tribe but the concepts remain the same. For example, finer grasses are woven for more water tight baskets and beefier material for more structural pots.