I wanted it bad,” laughs Andrea “Annie” Cayetano-Jefferson, a sixth-generation Gullah sweetgrass artist who lives in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Basket weaving is one of the oldest ...

Listen (Real 5:28) In a recent survey, 105 Mohawks, mostly women, identified themselves as active makers of fine ash splint and sweetgrass baskets. Prized through the generations as much for their ...

CHARLESTON THAT WEAVES TOGETHER THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. SWEETGRASS BASKETS WERE BROUGHT INTO THE CAROLINAS IN THE 1600S BASED OFF OF RICE CULTIVATION. SWEETGRASS BASKETS HAVE CONNECTED ...

On Saturday, the first day of February and the first day of Black History Month, over at the Riverbanks Botanical Garden, ...

Mary Jackson (b. 1945, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) is a basket maker who lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband Stoney. She makes sweetgrass baskets that come out of a tradition ...

Sweetgrass Heritage Baskets is one of the vendors and has brought their handmade baskets sourced with sweetgrass from the low country of SC.