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 ...

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., will honor the history and tradition of Mohawk basket making this summer. For many generations,... Jul 01, 2015 — The Adirondack Museum in Blue ...

To be chosen for a National Heritage Fellowship is to be recognized as a kind of national treasure. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and celebrates traditional and folk ...

James Carthel picks up a handful of brown, dried-out grass from his yard - six or eight narrow strands, each several inches long. He divides the bundle into two sections and squirts some water to make ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Just a few years ago, Nikia Wigfall needed only to drive to the nearby marshes to harvest the sweetgrass that she and other descendants of slaves weave into the beautiful baskets ...

Moncks Corner and surrounding residents will have the chance to learn the art of sweetgrass basket-weaving. The Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center will host sweetgrass basket sewing classes on ...

An advertisement that ran in Charleston newspapers announced the sale of a valuable agricultural commodity: Cotton and Rice Negroes. The auction was held at 11 a.m. at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street.

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Anyone who's lived in or visited the Lowcountry has probably come across a sweetgrass basket. Whether you're driving along the Sweetgrass Corridor in Mount Pleasant, ...

Mary Jackson, a small, almost delicate woman with chin-length dark hair, walks through an exhibit of baskets -- some flat and traylike, some bowl-shaped, some lidded, even a basket meant to hold beer.

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 ...