Finger Weaving

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

Fingerweaving Untangled: An Illustrated Beginner’s Guide Including Detailed Patterns and Common Mistakes by Carol James

Ceinture fléchée by Marius Barbeau

Histoire et origines de la ceinture fléchée traditionnelle dite de l’Assomption

Parle-moi de la ceinture fléchée !