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Weaving Tools 

Basket weaving tools can be specifically designed for basket making or ordinary tools found around the house or garage. 

Basic Weaving Tools:
Optional Tools:
Awl
Bent Tip Packing Tool
Clothes Pins or Spring Clips
Knife with straight edge
Measuring Tape
Needle Nose Pliers with narrow nose
Pencil
Reed Cutters (Pruning Shears/heavy duty Scissors)
Spoke weight
Spray Bottle
Strong, Sharp Scissors
Water container (bucket or dish pan)
Old Towel
Band-aids
Bone Awl
Diagonal cutting pliers/side cutting pliers
Plastic Cable Ties
Reed Gauge
Straight Weaverite™ tool

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  • My favorite weaving tool is a flexible letter opener.  It works great for tucking spokes, packing and opening spaces. (Submitted by Marilyn Margrave)
  • Use a vegetable peeler to taper the ends of flat oval reed for rims and overlaps.  It is smaller than other tools used for the same purpose.
  • Mark all your tools with your name or initials using a wood burning tool or permanent marker.  Any tools left behind from a class or from just weaving with friends can easily be identified and returned.
  • Sandpaper is a wonderful item to keep in your too bag to sand handles, bases and to remove pencil marks.
  • Use small wet sponge to pull your weaver through when it becomes too dry or to dampen small areas of your basket.
  • There are several items that can be used to secure and retie a coil of reed for future use.  Place a rubber band, cable tie, VELCRO® straps or a pony tail holder (kind with two plastic balls) around the end of the coil before cutting the last holding tie. The tie will need to be tighten as reed is pulled.  Recoil the reed and hold the coil together with long twist ties, craft pipe cleaners or VELCRO® straps.
  • Try using an ordinary table knife to open spaces between the rim and basket.  A table knife is also handy for guiding cane when weaving chair seats.
 
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Tips and Tricks listed on this page have been pasted from weaver to weaver over the past years.  MBG does NOT claim originality but provides a forum for sharing those deemed beneficial to new and experienced weavers.  MBG welcomes the submission of additional tips and tricks.  Please send your tips to

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