cedar bark
Conifer outer layer
Cedar bark is the fibrous outer covering of cedar trees, historically significant in Pacific Northwest Indigenous cultures for weaving baskets, mats, clothing, and rope.
The bark is stripped in long sections and often split into layers—the soft inner bark prized for textiles, the rougher outer bark for construction.
She learned to weave cedar bark from her grandmother.
- basket weavingCreating woven containers
- woven hatHeadwear of interlaced fibers
- mulchProtective plant bedding
- indigenous practicesCustoms originating locally
- totem poleCarved pillar with clan symbols
Pacific Northwest · plant fibers · canoe building · bent wood · traditional crafts · longhouse · cambium · old growth · natural fibers · conifer · wood chips · woodsy · reddish · incense · roof · stringy · basket · redwood
- fire startersmatch, matches, lighter, lighters, matchsticks
- basketrybasket, baskets, woven basket, basketmaker, basketry
- firestartersmatches, lighter, flint, tinder bundle, kindling
- tree barkpaperbark, shagbark, tanbark, cork oak, shellbark
- bark mulch
- Northwest Coasttotem pole, potlatch, totem poles, thunderbird, clan crest
cedar barkheartwood
Tree's central wood
sapwood · cedar wood · timber · xylem · lumber
cedar barksynthetic fiber
Chemically produced textile strand
metal siding · animal hide · stone · concrete · fiberglass