The end result of a successful basket weaving project. This version has two side handles. Everybody loves a basket! And whether you’re using that woven container to tote vegetables from the garden, ...

In 1994, Ethel M. Gill learned basket making from a co-worker, and hasn’t looked back. It was like a match made in heaven that combined her eagerness to learn something new with a natural talent for ...

You’ll never look at a basket the same way once you’ve woven one,” says Natalie Boyett, owner of the Chicago Weaving School in Irving Park. “When you see how things are put together, it’s like you’ve ...

To be chosen for a National Heritage Fellowship is to be recognized as a kind of national treasure. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and celebrates traditional and folk ...

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 ...

For 25 years, Stephanie Craig has been practicing traditional Indigenous basket weaving, fighting carpal tunnel and arthritis in her hands, in order to keep the tradition alive. Craig, a member of the ...

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 ...