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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Mount Pleasant, S.C. | Day after day, 64-year-old Geneva Monroe sits beneath an umbrella in the blazing South Carolina sun, carrying out a tradition that began with her ancestors who were brought here ...

WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — On Saturday, the first day of February and the first day of Black History Month, over at the Riverbanks Botanical Garden, people of all ages showed up for a sweetgrass ...

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 ...

Students take a Gullah basket weaving class hosted by Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson in the Student Union Tuesday afternoon. The class was organized by UConn Black Students Association President Breanna ...