The State

Sweetgrass baskets: A dying art form and the Hilton Head artisans who refuse to see it go

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 ...
Post and Courier

Heat, growth taking toll on weavers along 'Sweetgrass Basket Highway' in Mount Pleasant

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 ...
Charleston City Paper

The iconic sweetgrass basket celebrates art, history, culture July 27

The 20th-annual Sweetgrass Festival in Mount Pleasant is the perfect place to better understand the multi-generational artistry, history and heart behind the region’s signature craft. Using sweetgrass ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Artisan traditions in Charleston, S.C. honor history

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 ...
Post and Courier

Knock-off sweetgrass baskets should fail by comparison

Fads come and go, and styles change. But sweetgrass baskets, carefully crafted by Lowcountry weavers, endure as functional works of art, passed from generation to generation. It isn’t surprising that ...
Yahoo

A sweetgrass basketmaker weaves history and heritage into the culture of the Lowcountry

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 ...
WLTX19

South Carolina sweetgrass basket workshop highlights Gullah heritage, endangered Lowcountry craft

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — On Saturday, the first day of February and the first day of Black History Month, over at the Riverbanks Botanical Garden, people of all ages showed up for a sweetgrass ...
Yahoo

DO Savannah: 7th generation basket-sewer is Palmetto Bluff's July Artist in Residence

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 City Paper

Basketmaker sews other cultures into sweetgrass tradition

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 ...
The Daily Campus

Sweetgrass baskets and Gullah culture, an interwoven history

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 ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Traditions in Charleston, S.C. honor history

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 ...