MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – The 17th Annual Sweetgrass Festival was held Saturday where tourists and locals celebrated Gullah Geechee Culture and the art of making sweetgrass baskets. Local basket ...

GEORGETOWN, SC (WMBF) -Sweetgrass Basket Making is something anyone can try! A great place to try it is at The Cottage in downtown Georgetown. The Cottage offers a Sweetgrass Basket making class every ...

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 ...

Michael Ellis bows his head and ties a palm around bulrush and sweetgrass, weaving together a handmade basket that allows him a moment of solitude. The brief time of serenity is interrupted when a ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Locals and visitors alike can learn how to weave a sweetgrass basket at the Charleston Museum. Local artisan Sarah Edwards-Hammond will provide comprehensive instruction on ...

Nakia Wigfall, a Mount Pleasant sweetgrass basket artisan, finished a rice fanner basket that a basketmaker started in Sierra Leone. Wigfall will travel April 12 to the Bahamas to collaborate with ...

Sweetgrass baskets are an iconic feature of the Lowcountry, but this functional art has roots that will never recede into the sands of time. Not if Palmetto Bluff’s July Artists in Residence, ...

“NEVER AGAIN” sits at the intriguing intersection of art and craft. The object is both a basket, woven from sweetgrass and palmetto, and an abstract sculpture. Much wider than it is tall, from a ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. Emily Manigault wants to make a good impression. At her roadside stand along Highway 17, she sweeps the sidewalk, a crucial slice of concrete that leads potential customers from ...