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so i just discovered that mongolian baskets are a real thing and they look pretty nice.
Has anyone made one? if so how, what is your method? anyone got any insights or want to chime in with how you think would be the best way to go about making one?
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>>2973371
Royale with cheese.
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>>2973411
ok that gave me a kek
still gonna make one.
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>>2973413
Make one that looks like a hamburger and sell it on Nitsy for $1000.
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Take a class.
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>>2973371
I hear they're especially good when woven underwater.
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Various plant fibres would work, had some success making twine from nasturtiums recently. looks like we simply need a thin and strong fibre and a thicker bendy one.
i don't believe they weave one basket and cut it in half, i think they weave two halves.
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>>2973371
It was one of those macrame-tier hobbies housewives had in the 1970's. It died out pretty quick because those strips that you weave into baskets shed fibers and slivers wherever you work..
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>>2973371
I started to get into weaving at some point, but I got bored quickly and the only thing I ever finished was a dumb rectangle tray, with wild willow
It's cool cuz everything's free, you can use branches, grass, bark, leaves, all kind of stuff and you basically only need a knife
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>>2976495
>those strips that you weave into baskets shed fibers and slivers wherever you work..
>double period
>I'm trans btw if it matters
the baskets in the pictures do not look like they shed any fibres whatsoever.
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>>2976500
>there is only one kind of woven basket
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>edges look super raw
huh, maybe they do cut them in half
looking at the weave it seems totally counter to how every other basket is made, won't it make them way harder to make into that shape.
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found some good photos showing inside, the edges are very raw. don't even know where they start weaving this, you'd think at the hinge/lock where the little curve is but any way you look at it, it looks like a difficult way to go about it.
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>>2976511
It looks like they just make a rectanglish mat and turn it into a basket after
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>>2976520
i don't think that's how they do it, it's clearly woven sideways in that shape but i can't tell exactly how one would go about doing it
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It doesn't even look woven
looks like a bunch of sticks run across the space and just cut off the extra
while adding sticks they're weaving a string over and under every inch or so along the length
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>>2973371
You just found out Mongolians have baskets?
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>>2984171
You still don't know this meme?

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