CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of Gullah Geechee heritage, and now he honors and ...

DULUTH — More than 4,000 miles separate northern Minnesota and Russia’s Republic of Karelia along the border of Finland. But Indigenous people in each region have long shared a common material for ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Nakia Wigfall, a Mount Pleasant sweetgrass basket artisan, finished a rice fanner basket that a ...

CHARLESTON THAT WEAVES TOGETHER THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. SWEETGRASS BASKETS WERE BROUGHT INTO THE CAROLINAS IN THE 1600S BASED OFF OF RICE CULTIVATION. THEN SWEETGRASS BASKETS HAVE CONNECTED ...

Sweetgrass baskets are an iconic feature of the Lowcountry, but this functional art has roots that will never recede into the sands of time. Not if Palmetto Bluff’s July Artists in Residence, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Locals and visitors alike can learn how to weave a sweetgrass basket at the Charleston Museum. Local artisan Sarah Edwards-Hammond will provide comprehensive instruction on ...

CHARLESTON THAT WEAVES TOGETHER THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. SWEETGRASS BASKETS WERE BROUGHT INTO THE CAROLINAS IN THE 1600S BASED OFF OF RICE CULTIVATION. SWEETGRASS BASKETS HAVE CONNECTED GENERATIONS ...