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 ...
Nakia Wigfall, a Mount Pleasant sweetgrass basket artisan, finished a rice fanner basket that a basketmaker started in Sierra Leone. Wigfall will travel April 12 to the Bahamas to collaborate with ...
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 ...
Students take a Gullah basket weaving class hosted by Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson in the Student Union Tuesday afternoon. The class was organized by UConn Black Students Association President Breanna ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Jery Dine Taylor has been sewing sweetgrass baskets for nearly 70 years, a tradition she said was born out of necessity and rooted in survival. Taylor, a sweetgrass basket sewer ...
Mount Pleasant’s Sweetgrass Festival is a treasured event for Charleston’s families, and visitors from all over the world, to come and experience the important role Gullah Geechee culture plays in the ...
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 ...
Michael Ellis bows his head and ties a palm around bulrush and sweetgrass, weaving together a handmade basket that allows him a moment of solitude. The brief time of serenity is interrupted when a ...
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