For Andrea “Annie” Cayetano-Jefferson, this tradition ties her to generations of Gullah people, including her mother and daughter. Peter Frank Edwards My aunt Linda used to tell me, ‘Nobody has to ...

Sweetgrass - or “Wiingashk” in the Ojibwe language - is used in ceremonies and signifies the hair of Mother Nature or “Ogashiinan.” According to the Ojibwe culture, sweetgrass purifies the negative ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - A White House-ordered review of the Smithsonian museums could result in the removal of a Lowcountry sweetgrass basket maker’s work. The internal review is designed to ...

In front of the Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island, Michael Smalls and Dino Badger, the self-proclaimed “Gullah Elders,” sat meticulously sewing the beginning stages of a pair of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Sweetgrass baskets woven by master weavers in the Lowcountry and Rwanda are now on display at the Charleston International Airport. On Thursday, community leaders gathered ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — The small huts painted in floral colors — rose, violet, orchid, buttercup, bluebell — bloom along U.S. Highway 17 North. They look as fragile as spring flowers, just widely spaced ...

“NEVER AGAIN” sits at the intriguing intersection of art and craft. The object is both a basket, woven from sweetgrass and palmetto, and an abstract sculpture. Much wider than it is tall, from a ...