(WKYT) - When you pull into the driveway at the Richmond home of Janice Luxon, you might notice a small wood sign with a basket in the middle and the words “Basket Weavers” and “Entrance” with an ...
The rigor required to create a Nantucket lightship basket puts the lie to any cheap jokes about learning the craft. “If these baskets are made perfectly,” says Leslie Goldsmith, “they should be able ...
PORT ANGELES — For millenniums, the tribes of the Olympic Peninsula have been sharing and trading basketry styles and weaving techniques — and that tradition continues to this day. So said Jamie ...
While it’s often thought that basket weaving is a dying art form, it’s actually very much alive and well all across the world, and even right here in Michigan. “It still exist in a lot of places, you ...
Tall, short, wide, narrow, round, oval, square – the Nantucket baskets arrayed on the dining table in Susan Taylor-Blauuw’s charming 19th-century cape in Pembroke demonstrate not only her creative ...
Hazel Pete, 88, a respected artist and teacher of traditional Native American basket weaving, died Thursday on the Chehalis Reservation near Oakville, Wash. No cause of death was reported. A ...
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 ...
African palm frond weaving is a traditional craft that has been practiced for centuries across the continent. The art ...