Charleston Sweetgrass Baskets

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Charleston sweetgrass baskets.

A true charleston treasure. Sweetgrass baskets of the lowcountry. Lowcountry sweetgrass basket earrings free shipping. 5 out of 5 stars 143 143 reviews.

Flat sweetgrass fan style baskets were used during harvest season to separate rice from chaff. Gullah sweetgrass basket small tray sweetgrass double handle basket. Sweetgrass baskets and palm sweet grass basket making was brought to south carolina by slaves who came from west africa. Sweetgrass baskets by cayetano stay in the loop three generations of sweetgrass basket weavers from mount pleasant sc.

Gullah sweetgrass basket medium triple loops serving dish sale. Sweet grass also known as ethnobotany and typically is found in the low country of south carolina georgia and northeast florida and is practiced by the gullah culture. Sweetgrass palmetto rose bouquet. Your guide to the woven wonders of the lowcountry sweetgrass basket makers highway.

Today the art of sweetgrass basket sewing is alive and thriving at the charleston city market one of the oldest public markets in america. Lowcountry sweetgrass basket earrings free shipping. Home grown hand harvested braided organic wildcrafted sweetgrass hierochloe ordorata about 1 ounce 2020 harvest. With more than 50 resident gullah artisans the charleston city market is the very epicenter of sweetgrass basketry one of the nation s oldest and most beautiful handicrafts of african origin.

Today the west african descendents keep the basket making tradition alive in mount pleasant. Charleston city market often referred to as the epicenter of the sweetgrass basket. Sweetgrass basket sewing was an important tradition among african americans on lowcountry plantations. These functional baskets were used on the plantations and sold for extra income for the slave owners.