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Basket weaving (also braiding or basket weaving) is the process of weaving or sewing pliable materials into three-dimensional artifacts such as baskets, mats, mesh bags, or even furniture. Artisans and artists who specialize in making baskets may be known as basket makers and basket weavers.

Basket weaving is also a peasant craft. Basketry is made from a variety of fibrous or pliable materials—anything that can be bent and formed into a shape. Examples include pine, straw, willow, oak, wisteria, forsythia, vines, stems, animal dander, pelts, grasses, threads, and fine wood shavings. There are many uses for basketry, from simple mats to hot air balloon gondolas. Many indigenous peoples are known for their basket-weaving techniques. History While basket-weaving is one of the most widespread crafts in the history of any human civilization, it's hard to tell how ancient it is Craft is as natural materials such as wood, grass and animal remains naturally and constantly deteriorate. Without proper conservation, then, much of the history of basketry has been lost and speculation remains. Middle East The earliest reliable evidence of basket weaving technology in the Middle East comes from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic phases of Tell Sabi Abyad and Çatalhöyük. Although no actual remains of wickerwork have been recovered, imprints on floor surfaces and fragments of bitumen suggest that wickerwork was used for storage and architectural purposes. The extremely well-preserved Early Neolithic ritual cave at Nahal Hemar yielded thousands of intact, perishable artifacts, including wicker containers, cloth, and various types of cordage. At Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) other Neolithic tracery imprints have been uncovered: Netiv HaGdud, Beidha, Shir, Tell Sabi Abyad III, Domuztepe, Umm Dabaghiyah, Tell Maghzaliyah, Tepe Sarab, Jarmo and Ali Kosh. The oldest known baskets were found at Faiyum in Upper Egypt discovered and have been carbon dated to between 10,000 and 12,000 years old, earlier than any established dates for archaeological evidence of pottery vessels, which were too heavy and fragile to be widely used by hunter-gatherers. The oldest and largest complete basket discovered in the Middle East's Negev is 10,500 years old. However, baskets rarely survive as they are made of perishable materials. The most common evidence of knowledge of basket weaving is an imprint of the weave on fragments of clay pots, formed by packing clay on the walls of the basket and firing. Wicker furniture became fashionable in Victorian society