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Coil Basketry
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Materials used by California Indians for basket weaving.
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Starting the basket is the hardest part!
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Once the basket is started, the weaver continues to wrap and
stitch each “row” to the previous row.
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Coiled basket from California.
Made with native grasses.
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Not all designs are geometric. Some are organic.
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For the Indians of California, the eagle is a religious symbol
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Coil baskets were woven so tightly that they could be used for cooking.
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Coiled baskets were sometimes decorated with other materials, such as
feathers and beads, to appeal to tourists.
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Making a coil basket
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Cut the coil on an angle.Cut one yard of yarn to
begin.
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Lay your yarn facing opposite to the end of the coil.Start wrapping close to the angled end and wrap away
from that end.
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After you have wrapped 1-1 ½ inches, bend the coil to form a U.
Continue wrapping very tightly.
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Bend the coil to form a lowercase “e”.Secure it with 2 stitches.
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Continue wrapping 5 or 6 times, bend and secure with 2 stitches.
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Always stitch the row that you are working on to the row right next to it.
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Adding more yarn
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Bringing the sides up
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Finishing the basket
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Coil Pottery
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The native peoples of the American Southwest are famed for making beautiful pottery decorated with geometric patterns
and designs of animals and people.
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Contemporary artist, Tammy
Garcia, carves her coil pots.
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After she builds and smoothes her pottery, she carves traditional designs
into the clay before it is fired.
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Making a coil pot
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Use a golf ball size piece of clay and form it into a smooth hamburger patty shape. It should be about 3/8 inch thick. Try not to handle it so much that it
starts to get cracks on the surface.
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Roll a coil of clay, about as thick as your little finger.
Score, slip and blend it onto the base.
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Continue adding coils.Be sure to close up all seams on the inside
of your pot.
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A foot can be added to the bottom of your pot. Use another coil of clay.
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Be sure to smooth the seams!