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ABSTRACT
Mad weave (anyam gila) is a type of basketry originating in Indonesia. There is very little literature on the technique, and it is not widely used, but it produces a very pleasing fabric. It has a triaxial structure (the weaving strands are in three directions in contrast to the more usual warp and weft structure), and as a consequence it belongs to symmetry group p6 (or 632 in orbifold notation), making it particularly suitable for the construction of baskets, including closed polyhedral shapes, with triangular and hexagonal faces. Polyhedral baskets constructed with a small number of strands can be created if the edges do not lie along strand directions. The structure will decompose in various ways into combinations of different substructures, in particular the more common open hexagonal weave (or kagome) or its variants. A limited range of patterns, related to the possible decompositions, can be created by the use of different coloured strands.
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