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After spending 40-plus hours weaving a Nantucket Lightship Basket, Patty Campbell sometimes has a hard time handing over the finished product to a customer. “Weaving the baskets is very rewarding and ...

Gabriel Frey sits in his workshop, his towering frame hunched under a lamp, the only light illuminating the room. He shifts on his stool and grimaces slightly as he weaves one piece of black ash over ...

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 ...

PORT ANGELES — For millenniums, the tribes of the Olympic Peninsula have been sharing and trading basketry styles and weaving techniques — and that tradition continues to this day. So said Jamie ...

Basket passion ran high at the party hosted by Mary Bradley, a dues-paying member of the Longaberger Collectors Club. Ten women gathered in Bradley’s Aliso Viejo home to hear sales associate Edie ...

Cherokee rivercane baskets have been getting smaller. These days, an intricately woven basket might be only the diameter of an apple. Artisans have been making some baskets smaller to make the most of ...

During Black History Month, Macy’s marketed a second shipment of baskets made by Rwandan women, many of whom were widowed during the country’s genocide. Some weavers say the business helps them cope ...

When appraiser Bruce Shackelford evaluated three Native American baskets brought to the San Jose ROADSHOW in August 2009, although he was unsure of their precise provenance, he instantly recognized ...