By using recycled newspapers, artisans can create beautiful, eco-friendly baskets. This not only helps in preserving the ...

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 ...

Underwater Basket Weaving University announces an absurd study-abroad expansion and Olympic ambitions, poking fun at academic ...

About US is an initiative by The Washington Post to explore issues of identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Corey Alston is a rare artisan in the craft of coiled basket weaving, 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 ...

When appraiser Bruce Shackelford evaluated three Native American baskets brought to the San Jose ROADSHOW in August 2009, although he was unsure of their precise provenance, he instantly recognized ...

The sharp and over-strengthening of the Ghanaian cedi over the past year is threatening the livelihoods of straw basket weavers and related acters as well as exporters in the Upper East Region.

Manipal: At a time when traditional arts are fading in the modern mechanical age, a 50-year-old artisan from Kadthala in Karkala is continuing his family craft and earning his livelihood through ...

Mr Charles Alluang’a lived by the roadside for more than three years weaving baskets. And when the sun set, he lay his head by the very spot since he had no where else to go. The same spot also served ...