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 types of baskets can vary with the region and the ...

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 ...

The South Carolina State Museum has commissioned Charleston basket weaver Corey Alston to build a record-breaking sweetgrass ...

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 ...

As a child sitting at her mother’s knee, Mary Foreman Jackson learned to weave beautiful baskets from the coarse swamp grasses of South Carolina. Summer days were spent with brothers, sisters, cousins ...

Mary Jackson was 4 when she learned how to weave. Sitting at her mother’s knee in the late 1940s, she tied her first knots with nimble little fingers, binding coils of sea grasses. In the Gullah ...

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 ...

A conversational hum fills the Goongerah community hall, in the East Gippsland mountains. Loading... For one of Victoria's most remote places, it is busy. About 20 women and children sit in a circle, ...

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 period ...

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 ...