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.

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 ...

Shame on me. I have been writing this home column now for 16-plus years and have written about what are, arguably, some pretty minor topics. Take, for instance, the color white, how to choose a yard ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A basketry class with the Experimental College at the University of Washington nearly three decades ago was a turning point for Everett artist Dorothy McGuinness. “Until then, I had no formal art ...

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – “It’s basically a hobby that got way out of hand.” Lorraine Felker, of the Lewistown Valley, has been weaving baskets ever since she took a class 23 years ago, and she’s bringing ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Over the last two decades, a Lowcountry tradition has grown into a business. You’ve likely seen baskets and the women who make them, selling the artwork throughout the area.

From Navajo artists to those in Japan, Nepal, the Middle East, Guatemala and Peru, the craft of hand-weaving has been part of the world’s culture for thousands of years. Modern-day weavers keep the ...

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