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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art," a collection of more than 200 baskets from South Carolina, Georgia and Africa, and African artwork will call the second floor of the Gibbes home ...

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 honors and preserves it. A native of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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