CHARLESTON, S.C. - Just a few years ago, Nikia Wigfall needed only to drive to the nearby marshes to harvest the sweetgrass that she and other descendants of slaves weave into the beautiful baskets ...

Standing at the gates of the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, Washington, I felt like the kid at the grown-ups’ table. Speckled around the picturesque entrance overlooking the Columbia River were ...

Geauga Park District is offering workshops to build a basic bin basket, an odds-and-ends basket or both. First, designed to teach the basic art of basket weaving with rattan reed, Naturalist Renell ...

ETSHA, Botswana, April 25 (UNHCR) - Tourists visiting Botswana invariably buy some of the colourful baskets on offer in crafts shops to take home as souvenirs. Little do they know that these baskets ...

For generations weavers expertly twisted reeds, wood and grasses, using their own signature style to create baskets and creels to carry and store almost everything they might need. Once common in ...

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