Materials used do not limit the spectrum of baskets made by the shakers as white oak, willow, black ash, poplar, swamp maple and commercially available reed were frequently used in aspects of production. Perhaps the most credited with being Shaker products are the baskets of the generations of basketmakers residing in Columbia County, New York. The rims appear to be more pronounced and when lashed to the basket seem oval in appearance. They have more of an assembled from separate parts nature rather than the more integrated flow of the Shakers basketry. Another difference is the carving and splint preparation.
More carving is apparent and splints show more hand-prepared effort.
The weaving is spiraled upward with thin waevers and the weaving pattern makes use of a charactistic splint upright. The Shakers were almost obsessive about concealing nearly all detracting details. They varied the lashing styles whereas Taghkanic baskets appear exclusively cross bound. The rims lock these simple these simple notched ears in place. Other styles of ears in this type of basket are either inserted inside or outside of the basket, not straddling the basket.