Geauga Park District is offering workshops to build a basic bin basket, an odds-and-ends basket or both. First, designed to teach the basic art of basket weaving with rattan reed, Naturalist Renell ...

“For beginners in this class, it will take the better part of the day,” she said. “And that’s just fine. Anyone with a crafting background who can follow a pattern can make a basic basket. You soak ...

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 ...

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 ...

Craig spends nine months of the year locating and harvesting traditional materials such as hazel, rushes, bigleaf maple and western red cedar from across the state. She uses them to shape baskets and ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. We’re all looking at screens far too much these days. According ...

Description: The intent of the basket project is to keep learning new techniques each year and to gradually increase the level of difficulty. All arts and craft exhibits must include a 4-H Craft ...

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 ...