Plaiting StitchArticle | Updated 5 months ago A Basket with Diagonal Plaiting WA Museum Plaiting stitch. Image copyright WA Museum To form this stitch, place strips of material into overlapping columns or rows in a grid pattern. Then, moving across the grid, weave more strips of material over and under the grid, joining the two. Patterns can be created in this stitch by varying the width and colours of the strips. There are als many variants of this particular design: Plaiting – diagonal: Weave finished at a diagonal angle. A Basket with Diagonal Plaiting Image copyright WA Museum Plaiting – Hexagonal: This type of stitch uses three long, flat, and flexible sticks, such as split bamboo, pandanus palm, or rattan cane, that weave around each other to form geometric patterns of hexagons and stars. The three sticks fire off in opposing directions at 60o intervals, interlocking with other strands to form the hexagonal star shape. A Basket with Hexagonal Plaiting Image copyright WA Museum Twill plaiting: This design starts similarly to the plain plaiting stitch. However, instead of practicing the basic “under-over” technique, it uses an “under-over-over” variant with a staggered starting point for each column and row. A Twill Plaited Basket Image copyright WA Museum