The hand tools and aids used at the bench while a willow basket is woven and completed, including the rapping iron that packs the weave tight, the bodkin that opens a space in dense work so a new rod can be threaded through, the greasehorn of tallow that eases the bodkin in and the picking knife that trims loose ends once weaving is done. A tool belongs here when its cited source describes it as used during weaving or to finish a woven basket. It excludes the tools that split and prepare the rods. A basket maker reaches for these tools again and again in the course of a single basket.
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Tools Used in Willow Basketmaking (Basketry & Beyond)
Has Member: Rapping Iron, Section: Rapping irons
These tools are used to compact the layers of weaving by beating them down.
Has Member: Greasehorn, Section: Greasehorn
This was usually a cow's horn filled with a mixture of tallow (animal fat) and horsehair.
Has Member: Picking Knife, Section: Picking knife
or trimming any unwanted ends of willow once the basket was finished.
Has Member: Bodkin, Section: Bodkin/awl/fid
A bodkin is essential when basketmaking.
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