About 100 weavers attended the Texas Basket Weavers Association conference to practice their craft and learn new techniques. “I find working with my hands is very meditative,” says Pete Schaffer of ...

Outside Charleston, S.C., Highway 17 looks like another Southern country road. It's actually a working art gallery of sweetgrass baskets. "All of the basket makers are artists," Henrietta Snype told ...

The art of basket weaving has been around since nearly the beginning of time. No one really knows when it started because the baskets do no survive forever because they are usually made from some sort ...

In 1994, Ethel M. Gill learned basket making from a co-worker, and hasn’t looked back. It was like a match made in heaven that combined her eagerness to learn something new with a natural talent for ...

When Andrea Herman discovered basket weaving at a community education class back in the ’80s, she immediately fell in love with the craft, which is thought to be as old as mankind. “I used to ...

Etsy has teamed up with Nest to welcome South Carolina's famous Gullah basket weavers to the Etsy marketplace. Using a combination of sweetgrass, pine needles, bulrush, and palmetto palm, the Gullah ...

Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison. Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NEW GLOUCESTER — Basket weaver Carolyn Kemp will join artists statewide when ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Joanna Schanz has no idea how many willow baskets she's woven over the past half century. 'No, absolutely not,” she said, laughing. Suffice to say Schanz has woven more than a few. She ...

What do you do? Don't call Miss Jimmie a basket weaver -- "I think of weaving as somebody who got a kit. I design a lot." When she picks up a half-completed basket and starts weaving, her hands fly.

About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Corey Alston is a rare artisan in the craft of coiled basket weaving, a ...