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7/27/2007
7:32:40 pm EDT
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Basket-Weaving Is Threatened In S.C.
Author: AP Source: The Conservative Voice
Title: BASKET-WEAVING IS THREATENED IN S.C.
Just a few years ago, Nikia Wigfall needed only to drive to the nearby marshes to harvest the sweetgrass that she and other descendants of slaves weave into the beautiful baskets sold to tourists in and around this antebellum port city.
But booming coastal development has made finding the clumps of long, swaying sweetgrass tougher and tougher.
Upscale homes have been built on traditional harvesting spots. And gated subdivisions – many with "plantation" in their names – often don't let the weavers come through to pluck the grasses that they coil with palmetto fronds, bulrushes and pine needles they way their parents and grandparents taught them to do.
The shortage is threatening the centuries-old black American folk art.
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| Shameful. | Jul 29th. at 12:00:18 am EDT
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Winddragon (anderson, South Carolina) - Email Me
Those are some hard working people that harvest grass and weave those baskets. They're expensive but worth it. The sweet grass has a very different feel to it like silk, I suppose. We've joked about taking basket weaving in college but it's almost not a joke. You would need many semester hours to learn those weaves. Now they'll cost even more. I'm going to Charleston again. I hate to see their culture threatened and they don't have a legal voice as of yet. Sweet grass areas should be protected for them.
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