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Anonymous01/28/26, 19:57No.2973371mongolian basket weaving
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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Anon01/28/26, 23:56No.2973411
Royale with cheese.
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Anon01/29/26, 00:51No.2973417
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Anon01/29/26, 01:45No.2973422
Take a class.
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Anon01/31/26, 15:35No.2973868
I hear they're especially good when woven underwater.
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Anon02/14/26, 22:02No.2976490
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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Anon02/14/26, 22:12No.2976495
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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Anon02/14/26, 22:16No.2976497
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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Anon02/14/26, 22:21No.2976502
>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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Anon02/14/26, 22:46No.2976511
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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Anon02/14/26, 22:47No.2976512
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Anon02/14/26, 22:48No.2976515
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Anon03/14/26, 16:18No.2981147
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