Gather about six to eight fibers and tie the ends together. Green fibers with green fibers and tan fibers with tan fibers. After they have all been grouped it is time to wash the fibers. Boil the tan fibers for 10 minutes and then let them dry. Do not cook the green fibers, leave them out to dry along with the tan fibers for 2 ½ days.
Once your fibers have dried, the weaving process with begin. There are two colors you can have for your basket, light or dark. The tan fibers will create a light basket and green a dark basket. To begin weaving, take the desired fiber and stretch it. Make a small ring or coil at the end and thread a needle with string or a Jippi Jappa fiber through the middle of the coil and loop around and pull tight. This will keep it in place.
Continue the weaving process of making a coil and threading the needle through. With each new coil include parts of the previous one to hold the whole thing in place. Remember, you are starting the base of the basket. Once you have reached the desired size of the base you will begin to make the sides. To make the sides weave the strands of the outer coil in a vertical or diagonal