For most of his 80 years, Joe Mazyck has been harvesting the soft, pliable sweetgrass used to make the iconic baskets that have been woven by slaves and their descendants for centuries along the ...

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 ...

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, honored the history and tradition of Mohawk basket making this past summer. For many generations,... Dec 30, 2015 — The Adirondack Museum in Blue ...

ADILABAD: In order to provide an alternative livelihood for the Kolam people, officials from the District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) have started providing training to the tribals in preparing ...

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 ...