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Maori flax weaving can only be learnt the old way, by sitting, by listening, by touching and by doing. Start with a full leaf and pull off the hard midrib. Split it into strips of an even width right across the leaf. Before weaving, you have to soften the strips by shell or the blunt edge of a butter knife. Scrape the flax in each direction, pulling to the end of the strip each way. Hold the shiny side of the leaf facing you with the stalk pointing downwards.
You wont need many tools to make a simple basket like this; a knife, a pair of secateurs and maybe an Bodkin (a pointed tool used for separating the weave, a pointed stick or 6 inch nail would work sufficiently.) We start weaving a basket by making the base first. Cut 8 sections of Willow from thick shoots. For a small basket like I am making they only need to be about 30cm long. At the centre of four of these rods make a split about 5cm long.