To be chosen for a National Heritage Fellowship is to be recognized as a kind of national treasure. The award is given by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and celebrates traditional and folk ...

LINCOLN, Maine (WABI) - If you go ice fishing, there’s a good chance you own a pack basket. There’s a company based in Lincoln that’s been hand weaving these wooden containers for more than 35 years.

GOLD HILL — Today, class, we have a lesson in making baskets. We will not be making just any old basket, but fine ash wood baskets using traditional methods of preparing the wooden “splints.” Many ...

Pollard came into the field through her mother, Peggy, who owned a craft store and worked for L.L.Bean as a professional basket weaver before retiring. 30 years later, Pollard tapped her mother for ...

ST. MARY PARISH, LA (WVUE) - The cane baskets that are created by Louisiana's Chitimacha tribe are considered some of the finest examples of Native American basket weaving. But the baskets also played ...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Some crafts take weeks or months to complete, but you can complete a basket by the end of class. It's taught by professional Emma Hughes who's enjoyed basket weaving for ...

I built coil and cane baskets by hand and used a primitive celt hatchet. Tight weaving created durable containers for ...

Starting a successful basket-weaving business takes more than just talent or enjoyment of craft-making. A willingness to sell baskets online and in-person, by renting a booth at a trade show or flea ...