basket makers use a wide variety of materials to create a basket, such as bark, willow rods, leaves, wire, plastic, paper, and rope. there are three basic kinds of baskets—coiled, twined, or woven. a woven basket is made of spokes and weavers: the spokes run up and down and the weavers go over and under the spokes. a coiled basket is made by sewing rings of a fibrous material to the previous ring. twined baskets have flexible weavers that are twined around the spokes in a variety of patterns.