For most of his 80 years, Joe Mazyck has been harvesting the soft, pliable sweetgrass used to make the iconic baskets that have been woven by slaves and their descendants for centuries along the ...
June Pardue shows off her art: a woven grass sock. Grass basket weaving is an ancient and fine art that many Alaska Native women continue today. The types of baskets can vary with the region and the ...
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 ...
As a child sitting at her mother’s knee, Mary Foreman Jackson learned to weave beautiful baskets from the coarse swamp grasses of South Carolina. Summer days were spent with brothers, sisters, cousins ...
Under the scorching afternoon sun of Bolgatanga, a rural community north of Ghana, Patience Apambila is splitting strands of dry grass in preparation for weaving them into baskets. Apambila is one of ...
On the outskirts of town in Joseph Foreman Jr.'s small frame house with a slanting porch, an array of sweet-smelling sweet grass baskets covers the floor. Some are round, some oval, some flat. Some ...
The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, honored the history and tradition of Mohawk basket making this past summer. For many generations,... Dec 30, 2015 — The Adirondack Museum in Blue ...
GEORGETOWN, SC (WMBF) –The Kaminski House Museum will feature the art of sweetgrass basket making as the museum launches "Second Saturdays." Craftswoman Barbara McCormick will be on the front porch of ...
Stephanie Wood was right in the middle of helping enmesh participants in her family’s 700-year-old tradition of Kalapuya basket weaving at the 1861 Brunk House when something added yet another period ...
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