In [B. Han and Z. Shen, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 38 (2006), 530–556], a family of univariate short support Riesz wavelets was constructed from uniform B-splines. A bivariate spline Riesz wavelet basis from the Loop scheme was derived in [B. Han and Z. Shen, J. Fourier Anal. Appl., 11 (2005), 615–637]. Motivated by these two papers, we develop in this article a general theory and a construction meth...