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

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. ...

For Andrea “Annie” Cayetano-Jefferson, this tradition ties her to generations of Gullah people, including her mother and daughter.

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 ...

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 ...

Women from the Kolam tribe learn how to weave baskets using cattail grass through DRDA project officer K Vijayalakshmi at Kolamguda village of Nirmal district.

It may be deemed a hobby now, but basket weaving is an ancient craft that’s been around for far longer than pottery, or even stone carving. The earliest examples are up to 12,000 years old ...