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Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bear grass is a commonly used plant for basket weaving. It is also fire-adapted, meaning that it must burn so that it can regrow healthier. Carolyn Smith collected this bear grass in 2015 in an area ...
“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. ...
How an injury led Escondido artist to reconnect with her Luiseno culture through basketry Diania Caudell, a member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, leads basket weaving at the Valley ...
In Barangay Sta. Ana, municipality of Pandan, Antique, members of a small agrarian reform community are learning new skills and are harnessing their community’s natural resources. The barangay, whose ...
One instructor, Mary Graham-Grant, said it's called sewing sweetgrass, not weaving. "Sweetgrass basketry originated in Africa when the enslaved people were brought to this country," Graham-Grant said.
Zhang Bangshou makes straw weaving products in Beijing. Photo: Courtesy of Zhang Bangshou. At a primary school in Beijing, students gathered around an elderly craftsman named Zhang Bangshou, eyes ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of Gullah Geechee heritage, and now he hon… ...