Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. NORTHAMPTON — In the shade of the trees, hands carefully and skillfully weave willow ...

The ancient Native tradition of weaving baskets is now grabbing the attention of the contemporary art world. Jeffrey Brown visited one artist who is taking the form in new directions. It's for our ...

Tied to landscape and culture, basket making is a diverse, international craft with overlapping traditions from around the world My first foray into basket making started innocently. I found a kit at ...

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – Dressed in traditional Native American garb, Teeter Romero twists the reeds in her hand and starts to weave the materials together in the mission courtyard. She doesn’t need to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NEW GLOUCESTER — Basket weaver Carolyn Kemp will join artists statewide when ...

Stephanie Wood was right in the middle of helping enmesh participants in her family’s 700-year-old tradition of Kalapuya basket weaving at the 1861 Brunk House when something added yet another period ...

INDIANOLA — To Ed Carriere, his craft is about more than weaving baskets. It's about the ancestors' life stories from the past hundreds of generations at the shoreline of the Salish Sea that could be ...

About 100 weavers attended the Texas Basket Weavers Association conference to practice their craft and learn new techniques. “I find working with my hands is very meditative,” says Pete Schaffer of ...

Engineers at the University of Michigan have found that ancient basket-weaving techniques could be the key to creating a new class of resilient and stiff materials for the 21st century. The research ...

About two years ago, Brooklyn artist Doug Johnston got an itch to learn traditional basket-weaving techniques, so he did what any reasonable man hunting for tips on ancient crafts might do: He scoured ...

Woven baskets, a traditional product of Roma artisans in Elbasan, are becoming a must-have accessory thanks to the dedicated work of a group of activists. Sitting cross-legged under the shade of a ...

As craft classes for the likes of willow weaving and blacksmithing become more and more popular in communities right across Northern Ireland, we often wonder why anyone would want to take an hour out ...