African grass basket weaving is an age-old craft that showcases the continent's rich cultural heritage. The intricate art involves weaving grass into beautiful, functional pieces. Not only does 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 ...
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 ...
On the outskirts of town in Joseph Foreman Jr.'s small frame house with a slanting porch, an array of sweet-smelling sweet grass baskets covers the floor. Some are round, some oval, some flat. Some ...
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 ...
An advertisement that ran in Charleston newspapers announced the sale of a valuable agricultural commodity: Cotton and Rice Negroes. The auction was held at 11 a.m. at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street.
GEORGETOWN, SC (WMBF) –The Kaminski House Museum will feature the art of sweetgrass basket making as the museum launches "Second Saturdays." Craftswoman Barbara McCormick will be on the front porch of ...
Moncks Corner and surrounding residents will have the chance to learn the art of sweetgrass basket-weaving. The Berkeley County Museum and Heritage Center will host sweetgrass basket sewing classes on ...
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 ...