Study These Terms

• Abaca or manila hemp – a raw material used in making basket and other
products obtained from the leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis Nee) and
is considered as the strongest among natural fibers.
• Basketry – a kind of craft that uses weaving.
• Border – a method of securing the loose ends of the stakes.
• Coil – a technique used in basketry where the flexible coil begins
from the center at the bottom of a basket and spiraled outward and
upward and fastened by stitching material to form a basket.

• Pairing – a kind of weaving with two weavers worked alternately.

• Raffia (Raphia rufia ) – a palm fiber leaf or leaf rib fiber from tropical palm
varieties (Palmae).  

• Randing – a kind of weaving with one weaver.

• Slewing – a variation of randing where two or more canes are worked together as
one
• Stakes – are thicker canes used as a foundation for weaving in basketry making.

• Stroke – a method of using the weaver

and represents the complete movement
in any particular type of weaving.
• Trac – a border in which the movement of
each stake is completed before the next one
is bent down.
• Waling – a kind of weaving with three or more weavers and is used at
intervals to strengthen the basket.

• Weavers – are the finer canes woven between the stakes to form the
body of the basket.