The world’s largest sweetgrass basket ever documented on record as art now sits at the South Carolina State Museum in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD) – The South Carolina State Museum unveiled Thursday morning what is believed to be the largest ...

Sweetgrass baskets are part of the cultural history of South Carolina and now there is a big example of one at the SC State ...

In front of the Coastal Discovery Museum on Hilton Head Island, Michael Smalls and Dino Badger, the self-proclaimed “Gullah Elders,” sat meticulously sewing the beginning stages of a pair of ...

The 20th-annual Sweetgrass Festival in Mount Pleasant is the perfect place to better understand the multi-generational artistry, history and heart behind the region’s signature craft. Using sweetgrass ...

There are big sweetgrass baskets, but then there is Mount Pleasant artisan Corey Alston’s BIG sweetgrass basket that was ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — The small huts painted in floral colors — rose, violet, orchid, buttercup, bluebell — bloom along U.S. Highway 17 North. They look as fragile as spring flowers, just widely spaced ...

CHARLESTON THAT WEAVES TOGETHER THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. SWEETGRASS BASKETS WERE BROUGHT INTO THE CAROLINAS IN THE 1600S BASED OFF OF RICE CULTIVATION. THEN SWEETGRASS BASKETS HAVE CONNECTED ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Corey Alston has been weaving sweetgrass baskets for 23 years. The tradition he carries stretches back through generations of Gullah Geechee heritage, and now he honors and ...

Fads come and go, and styles change. But sweetgrass baskets, carefully crafted by Lowcountry weavers, endure as functional works of art, passed from generation to generation. It isn’t surprising that ...

GEORGETOWN, SC (WMBF) –The Kaminski House Museum will feature the art of sweetgrass basket making as the museum launches "Second Saturdays." Craftswoman Barbara McCormick will be on the front porch of ...