Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of ...

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 ...

Photo by Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage 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 ...

Weaving a link between American history and the African folk art of basket making is the ... Most were made from local sweet grass. “Baskets were the essential economic tool that are now being ...

Basket weaving in Africa has a history of thousands of years. Early humans are thought to have used natural materials to create containers for carrying goods. Gradually, these simple creations ...

This is an homage to his work with Croes to understand weaving techniques over time, with the top of the basket featuring a 1,000-year-old weaving technique and the bottom being made in the style ...

“Nostalgia, 2022,” made of black ash and sweet grass, ... which he gauged as thin as one thirty-second of an inch to make finer weave baskets than others were doing. ...

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 ...