James Carthel picks up a handful of brown, dried-out grass from his yard - six or eight narrow strands, each several inches long. He divides the bundle into two sections and squirts some water to make ...

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 ...

Basket weaving has become a way for ‘Little Doe’ to explore her Native American heritage. Barbara “Little Doe” Adkins, of Pampa, looks across a field of waving grasses and envisions the dried blades ...

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 ...

The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., will honor the history and tradition of Mohawk basket making this summer. For many generations,... Jul 01, 2015 — The Adirondack Museum in Blue ...

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 ...

A conversational hum fills the Goongerah community hall, in the East Gippsland mountains. Loading... For one of Victoria's most remote places, it is busy. About 20 women and children sit in a circle, ...