A guide to making birch bark baskets tells how to harvest bark without harming a tree and offers techniques and directions for making traditional Russian-style trays, baskets, bottles, and other decorative objects

• Centuries of a living craft
• Jim Widess
• Medieval novgorod's birch-bark crafts
• Harvesting birch bark & roots
• Tools for birch-bark crafts in medieval novgorod
• The Marvelous Tues
• General basket-making directions
• Plain-weaving directions
• Diagonal-weaving (bias-plaiting) directions
• Plaited basketry projects: rectangular tray
• Bottle with wooden top
• Ripples basket
• Small basket with three-part braid
• Oval basket with curls
• Bottle with stopper
• Saltcellar
• Sawtooth-rim basket with feet
• Peasant basket with handle
• Treasure box with lid
• Cube
• Birch-bark bead necklace
• Offset cube
• Symmetrical shoes
• Fitted (Asymmetrical) shoes
• Canister
• Stamped, sewn rim with embellishments
• Oval box with pegs
• Gallery of plaited bas: When craft becomes art Braided historical musings
• Using materials other than birch bark
• Contemporary basketry artists: Linda Sura
• Donna Carlson
• Teresa Tekulve
• Carol Hart
• Jane Patrick
• Flo Hoppe
• Jackie Adams
• Judith Saunders
• Ed Rossbach
• Lorraine Oller
• Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands
• Lai Sivalay
• Prasert Sytha
• Vladimir Yarish