Finishing a Basket | Digital Traditions
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Derrick finishes the rim on a split oak basket and prepares to attach the handle.Jimmie Dinkins explains the first steps in the process of making a kudzu basket.
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Derrick finishes the rim on a split oak basket and prepares to attach the handle.Video
John Derrick talks about the skills he learned from his father.Video
Elbert Brown recalls how farmers used the baskets in the first half of the 20th century.Video
Edna Rouse tells how people learn to make sweetgrass baskets.Video
Another excerpt from "Gullah Baskets." Milby Burton, director of the Charleston Museum in 1971, discusses the connections between Africa and South Carolina basket weavers.Video
Harriet Brown talks about the importance of collecting sweetgrass.Video
Learn the details on collecting palmetto as the video begins with Harriet Brown cutting a palm frond.Video
Video shows Harriet Bailem Brown holding a handful of green pine needles.Video
Hammond discusses making split oak baskets in his retirement.