For most of her early life, Linda Yamane thought Ohlone fine coil basketry had disappeared from the world. But when she was a Master's student at San Jose State University, she saw a poster displaying ...

When I attended a small craft fair recently at the American Indian Health & Services (AIH&S) in Santa Barbara, I didn’t buy ...

She said that although she would love to branch out and try other mediums, basket weaving is what she’s most comfortable with ...

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 prestige, career outcomes, and institutional ambition.

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 ...

Etsy has teamed up with Nest to welcome South Carolina's famous Gullah basket weavers to the Etsy marketplace. Using a combination of sweetgrass, pine needles, bulrush, and palmetto palm, the Gullah ...

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 ...

From cradles to water jugs, willow baskets are essential for many Great Basin Natives. “From the time we are born, we are in a basket — a willow basket,” said Leah Brady, a member of the Shoshone ...

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 ...