Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of ...

“We can count back as far as seven generations of sweetgrass basket sewers,” says Cayetano-Jefferson, who’s the only one of 19 grandchildren to pursue the art as a full-time job.

Two long-time Sweetgrass basket weavers in Hilton Head say the art form is dying. They’re determined to keep it alive.

"I learn something different every time I come," she says of workshops that have included leather mittens and moccasins, quilling and sweetgrass baskets.

East Cooper sweetgrass basketmaker Nakia Wigfall recently completed a unique rice fanner basket that blends West African and Lowcountry artistry.

Sweetgrass baskets are as Charleston as pimento cheese and shrimp and grits. But if you’re trying to decorate your Lowcountry house, there may be only so many baskets you can distribute ...

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 ...

The Sweetgrass Cultural Arts Pavilion, located at the Mount Pleasant Waterfront Park, is now open to any East of the Cooper basket maker, free of charge, on a first-come, first-served basis, the ...

With basket in tow, we set out for the plantations along Charleston’s Ashley River where the prototype baskets – known as “fanners” – once winnowed rice. The plantation houses were ...