You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NEW GLOUCESTER — Basket weaver Carolyn Kemp will join artists statewide when ...

What do you do? Don't call Miss Jimmie a basket weaver -- "I think of weaving as somebody who got a kit. I design a lot." When she picks up a half-completed basket and starts weaving, her hands fly.

CEDAR RAPIDS - Joanna Schanz has no idea how many willow baskets she's woven over the past half century. 'No, absolutely not,” she said, laughing. Suffice to say Schanz has woven more than a few. She ...

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 ...

all her life, but the Terrebonne Parish resident only picked up her tribe's traditional practice of basket weaving 18 years ago, after learning that it was in danger of dying out. A representative of ...

When Andrea Herman discovered basket weaving at a community education class back in the ’80s, she immediately fell in love with the craft, which is thought to be as old as mankind. “I used to ...

About 100 weavers attended the Texas Basket Weavers Association conference to practice their craft and learn new techniques. “I find working with my hands is very meditative,” says Pete Schaffer of ...

Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison. Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the ...

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 ...