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 ...

A long celebrated artisan craft in the Lowcounty has been making its way through generations. Sweetgrass basket making is a special skill that one can learn, and once perfected can make into art.

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 ...

Participants from near and far gathered at SEMO’s Crisp Museum for Laura Klaus’s popular basket-weaving class, finding ...

CHARLESTON, SC (AP) - A South Carolina museum is offering visitors a chance to weave sweetgrass baskets like generations of slaves and their descendants have been doing for centuries along the state's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary Jackson, a small, almost delicate woman with chin-length dark hair, walks through an exhibit of baskets -- some flat and traylike, some bowl-shaped, some lidded, even a basket meant to hold beer.

Snype’s grandmother, Elizabeth C. Johnson, taught her mother, Mary Mazyck, who then taught her how to weave Sweetgrass baskets. Snype has gone on to teach her daughter Latrelle Snype who then taught ...