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Waec Basketry 3 (Project Work) AOC 2026/2027

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The WAEC Basketry 3 (Project Work) for the 2026/2027 WASSCE is a practical examination designed to test candidates’ skills in designing and producing basketry items. It is part of the Trade Subjects requirement designed for vocational skill acquisition.

Structure: Candidates are presented with two practical project options, out of which they must choose and execute one.

Duration: The project is a long-term practical conducted over five days, with candidates working for six hours each day. Total Marks: The project carries a total of 80 marks.

Focus: The examination tests creative, manipulative, and technical skills in producing various basketry forms tailored to societal and cultural needs.

Waec Basketry 3 (Project Work) AOC 2026/2027

Practical Workbooks: Ensure you maintain a workbook documenting the design process, material selection, and step-by-step creation of projects.

Drafting & Design: Practice drawing designs (sketches) before starting production.

Material Sourcing: Get familiar with local materials (like willow, rattan, or raffia) and their preparation methods.

Basketry is the art and craft of making items by interweaving natural or synthetic materials using techniques such as weaving, plaiting, coiling, knotting, and stitching. It involves producing items like baskets, mats, hats, nets, footwear, cots, and decorative objects, sometimes combined with materials like beads, cowries, and gourds.

Areas covered in basketry include coiled work, woven articles, framework construction, macramé, and the designing and making of both functional and decorative items.

Meaning And Scope Of Basketry

Area covered in Basketry: coiled work, woven articles, frameworks, macrame etc.

  • Making articles such as baskets, hats, mats, nets, couches, footwear, cots etc.
  • Characteristics of materials and tools. Designing and making articles such as baskets, hats, mats, nets, couches, footwear, cots etc., using techniques of weaving, plaiting, coiling and stitching, knotting, and construction.
  • Combining with other materials such as cowries, gourd, beads etc. to produce rattle, macramé etc

Rationale For Studying Basketry

  • Creative use of new materials for making articles of cultural, functional and aesthetic value
  • Skills acquisition for employment and further studies
  • Tourism promotion

History, Social, Cultural And Economic Importance

  • History – Origin of basketry
  • Social – Social use of basketry eg. Entertainment etc.
  • Cultural – Cultural importance of basketry
  • Economics – Economic importance of basketry in society eg. agriculture, and commerce.

Places, People And Basketry

  • Contribution of people and places to basketry.

Competencies And Attitudes

  • Knowledge, Creative thinking, skill and values for employment e.g. weaving, designing etc.
  • Tolerance, diligence, honesty, commitment etc.
  • Communication skills, time management etc.

Preparation Of Materials.

  • Skills and techniques for preparation e.g. drying, wetting.Storage and care of materials (chemical and non-chemical methods). Preservation of sources of materials e.g. ecology, bush burning etc.
  • Discovering characteristics of materials and their uses in the making of articles

Tools and Their Uses

  • Category of tools, Description and Uses.
  • Drawing and labeling.
  • Improvisation
  • Care/Maintenance and Safety precautions.

Elements of Design

  • Identifying the elements and principles of design in the environment: dot, line, shape etc
  • Creating the elements using appropriate techniques of knotting, weaving etc. eg. bead or knot for a dot and waling for texture.
  • 12-point colour wheel.
  • Ghanaian colour concept and symbolism.

Principles Of Design

  • Identifying the elements of design in the environment eg. unity, balance, proportion, repetition etc.
  • Creating the Principles of design using appropriate techniques e.g. spraying, scorching, weaving etc.

Basic Design and Technology

  • Definition of design.
  • Idea creation and design by drawing from memory, imagination and observation.
  • Use of appropriate techniques, tools and materials.

Designing Articles To Suit Specific Needs

  • Designing an article by hand or computer, making articles to satisfy specific needs using techniques in weaving, knotting, plaiting, coiling and stitching, framing etc.
  • Criteria for appreciation and evaluation eg. Appropriate material, colour, technique, finishing etc.

Sustainable Development Of Basketry

  • Exploring strategies of sustainable sources of raw materials eg. Re-afforestation, waste management etc.
  • Challenges – Identifying and seeking solutions to problems associated with the industry eg. competition with plastic products, material acquisition etc.
  • Solution- Formation of co-operatives, remaining competitive.

Decoration And Finishing

  • Definition of Decoration
  • Definition of Finishing.
  • Processes of Decoration eg. use of coloured and uncoloured weavers, weave variations, scorching, spraying and use of complementary objects etc.
  • Processes of finishing e.g., wrapping, binding, singeing, tying, trimming, lashing, bending, gluing, sanding, varnishing, lacquering, embroidering, sealing, borders etc.

Entrepreneurial Skills In Practice

Portfolio e.g., prints, photos, CDs, DVDs etc.Business Plan

  • Meaning
  • Purpose for business plan
  • Steps towards business organization eg. registration of business, capital, location of set-up, materials and tools, market survey etc.

The Business

  • Capital eg. bank loan, co-operatives etc.
  • Exhibition – Types eg. general; specialized.

Business Promotion

  • eg. billboard, internet, print media, TV, radio, handbills, posters etc.

Entrepreneurial skills.Packaging and Handling

  • definition of
  • function of
  • disadvantages of
  • types of packaging – primary, secondary and tertiary packaging.

Costing and Pricing

  • variable cost
  • fixed cost
  • profit.

Factors of Price Determination.

Tools are identified, used, improvised and maintained safely. Design elements (dot, line, shape, colour) and principles (balance, unity, proportion, repetition) are applied using weaving and decoration techniques, including knowledge of the colour wheel and symbolism.

Design involves creating ideas from observation, memory and imagination. Articles are designed to meet specific needs using various techniques and evaluated based on materials, function and finishing.

Sustainability focuses on renewable materials, waste management and solving challenges like competition and material scarcity through co-operatives and innovation.

Decoration enhances appearance, while finishing includes processes like binding, trimming and varnishing. Entrepreneurial skills include portfolio development and marketing.

A business plan outlines how to start and manage a basketry business, including capital, registration and market survey. Business activities involve sourcing funds, exhibitions and promotion through media.

Packaging protects products and includes primary, secondary and tertiary types. Costing and pricing involve variable and fixed costs, profit and factors affecting price determination.

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