Starting a successful basket-weaving business takes more than just talent or enjoyment of craft-making. A willingness to sell baskets online and in-person, by renting a booth at a trade show or flea ...

The rigor required to create a Nantucket lightship basket puts the lie to any cheap jokes about learning the craft. “If these baskets are made perfectly,” says Leslie Goldsmith, “they should be able ...

(WKYT) - When you pull into the driveway at the Richmond home of Janice Luxon, you might notice a small wood sign with a basket in the middle and the words “Basket Weavers” and “Entrance” with an ...

Hudson Valley artist Katie Grove shares her approach to wild basketry, foraging, and her new book Weaving Wild Baskets, with tips for beginners and a local launch event.

One unique way to warm up your space is by adding baskets, but not your typical store-bought basket, a homemade locally ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traditional Ghanaian basket weaving employs natural materials such as palm fronds and grasses. These are woven into ...

Tall, short, wide, narrow, round, oval, square – the Nantucket baskets arrayed on the dining table in Susan Taylor-Blauuw’s charming 19th-century cape in Pembroke demonstrate not only her creative ...

The other day a regular customer of ours who favors outlandish costumes came in and admired a Native American war shirt newly on display. Not long ago, he would have bought it without a second thought ...

Talk about making sweet lemonade out of sour lemons. Only this is better. Peter Bauer of Rewild Portland teaches classes on weaving baskets out of vines of invasive English ivy. His motto: Weave a ...