It’s Your Sweetgrass Basket!
Beginner
Required Skills:
No previous experience required
Class Length:
Full Day
Class Times:
Friday, 8 am to 12 pm
Friday, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Gain the experience of creating your very own Sweetgrass basket. Sweetgrass baskets are coiled with Sweetgrass and Southern long-leaf pine needles and lashed with strips of palmetto. Techniques taught will enable the students to design a variety of shapes and sizes of Sweetgrass baskets. This is an art form stemming from West Africa over 300 years ago. Students bring scissors ONLY. Additional tools will be provided during class.
Registration Fees:
For FTWG Members: $170
For all others: $200
Materials Fee:
$50
Materials Fee Includes:
Sweetgrass Palmetto Long Leaf Pine Needles
Registration Fees are paid when you register to attend the FTWG Conference. Materials fees are paid directly to the instructor at the beginning of class. You should plan to pay the materials fee in cash.
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Barbara was born and raised in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina where she learned the trade of sweetgrass basket weaving from her grandmother, mother, aunts, and other family members at a very early age. She has since carried on this tradition and has shared her talent with others including her family. Barbara teaches several classes along the East Coast and has her work displayed in several publications including: “Row Upon Row: Seagrass Baskets of the Lowcountry,” a documentary, “Grass Roots: The Enduring Art of the Lowcountry Basket,” as well as the Kaminsky House (Georgetown, SC) and McKissick Museum (Columbia, SC) just to name a few. Sweetgrass basket weaving is an art form that came from West Africa over 300 years ago during slavery.