Finger weaving is a technique used to create belts, sashes, straps, and other similar items through a non-loom braiding process. It is especially popular among the Québecois, Métis and North American native peoples where it is a big part of their cultural identity.
Videos
Québecois
Making an Assomption sash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuG0E8ZauU
Excellent short film showing Claudette Roberge from Ste-Marie-Salomé, Quebec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZl4JESCYEw
Zef Arbour has several tutorial videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8lxRc5H_G7Uh57qSXEiukw/videos
Instructions for weaving more complicated designs – Charlevoix, tête de flèche, flammes nettes, Assomption and Acadienne
http://ceinturesflechees.net/
Weaving a double chevron – Dominique Buchmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBKHoClQwlY
Interview with Yvette Michelin. Le fléché, patrimoine immatériel du Québec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MF7i8WAQA
How to add beads to a sash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKDDYhoZxyo&list=PL4C56E50C42F13BA1&index=9
La ceinture fléchée, le fil rouge de l’histoire
https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/544330/le-fil-rouge-de-l-histoire
Sashes by Catherine Lessard
https://flecheart.com/
Native American
Anita West Fingerweaving demonstration, Wahzhazhe Cultural Center, Oklahoma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awXYbdUgnpE
Piscataway finger weaving, Maryland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Bf7TCSb-s
Bill Tohee fingerweaving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHFha0E63xQ
Metis
Elder Elize Hartley talks about the history and meaning of the Metis Sash. The sash she shows is loom woven rather than finger woven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hj8YA03T4&index=7&list=PL4C56E50C42F13BA1
Advanced Metis Finger Weaving – Four excellent on-line videos from the Gabriel Dumont Institute
http://www.metismuseum.ca/resource.php/02396
Books
A Manual of Fingerweaving by Robert J Austin
Fingerweaving Basics by Gerald L Findley
Finger Weaving: Indian Braiding by Alta R. Turner
Ceinture fléchée by Marius Barbeau
Histoire et origines de la ceinture fléchée traditionnelle dite de l’Assomption