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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9844742, member: 8267"]Most wedding baskets used by the Navajo have actually been made by Southern Paiute and Ute weavers. They are made of Rhus trilobata (squawberry sumac) using 3 bunched rods as the foundation of the coils (which can be seen between the stitches in Pottery's photo) and fine splints of sumac for the stitching. The coils are worked from right to left producing a counter clockwise spiral on the inside surface, and the rim is finished with a herringbone stitch. You can see all of these features in the one Pottery shows. A "pathway" or "doorway" is created in the design, running from the center of the basket to the rim. This pathway is used to orient the basket toward the east during rituals, and the weaver ends the last round of coiling where the path intersects the edge so there is a tactile as well as visual guide to the proper orientation. The exterior surface of the basket is usually quite well finished, although not as smooth as the interior working surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Pakistani copies are typically made using bundles of grass as the foundation of the coils, and palm fibers for stitching. They are not as carefully finished, and very often the pathway/doorway does not meet the end of the last coil at the edge.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://zainhomecollection.com/hand-woven-baskets/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://zainhomecollection.com/hand-woven-baskets/" rel="nofollow">https://zainhomecollection.com/hand-woven-baskets/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 9844742, member: 8267"]Most wedding baskets used by the Navajo have actually been made by Southern Paiute and Ute weavers. They are made of Rhus trilobata (squawberry sumac) using 3 bunched rods as the foundation of the coils (which can be seen between the stitches in Pottery's photo) and fine splints of sumac for the stitching. The coils are worked from right to left producing a counter clockwise spiral on the inside surface, and the rim is finished with a herringbone stitch. You can see all of these features in the one Pottery shows. A "pathway" or "doorway" is created in the design, running from the center of the basket to the rim. This pathway is used to orient the basket toward the east during rituals, and the weaver ends the last round of coiling where the path intersects the edge so there is a tactile as well as visual guide to the proper orientation. The exterior surface of the basket is usually quite well finished, although not as smooth as the interior working surface. The Pakistani copies are typically made using bundles of grass as the foundation of the coils, and palm fibers for stitching. They are not as carefully finished, and very often the pathway/doorway does not meet the end of the last coil at the edge. [URL]https://zainhomecollection.com/hand-woven-baskets/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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