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 ...

For 25 years, Stephanie Craig has been practicing traditional Indigenous basket weaving, fighting carpal tunnel and arthritis in her hands, in order to keep the tradition alive. Craig, a member of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is Highly Recommend, a column dedicated to what people in the food industry are eating, drinking, and buying right now. Here, Nicole Davis writes about the countertop baskets that make her ...

Disappearing: In the early days, it was almost mandatory for every member of the family among different tribes, especially the girls, to learn to how to make at least one handcraft . However, this is ...