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 ...

In 1994, Ethel M. Gill learned basket making from a co-worker, and hasn’t looked back. It was like a match made in heaven that combined her eagerness to learn something new with a natural talent for ...

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 ...

For Mary Claw of the Chemehuevi Tribe, basket weaving isn’t just an art form. It’s also preservation. ”There’s nobody left,” Claw said Saturday, while weaving strips of willow into an intricate basket ...

While it’s often thought that basket weaving is a dying art form, it’s actually very much alive and well all across the world, and even right here in Michigan. “It still exist in a lot of places, you ...