Handmade With Real Sweetgrass

It’s a great piece for the bedroom, dining room, kitchen, or office and there are many uses for this piece of art. It can be used to store special items, jewelry, or just a great what not basket. 

This sweetgrass basket is an 8 by 2.9 inches deep all utility basket that comes with a lid. This basket is a very difficult and time-consuming piece for an artist to weave. The lid is 1.25 inches on the rim and about 2 inches in the middle.

We enclose cleaning instructions with all of our baskets.

Made by Gullah artisans for more than 300 years, people in Charleston have been weaving baskets using locally-harvested bulrush, a strong yet supple marsh grass that thrives in the sandy soil of the Lowcountry. Years later sweetgrass, a softer, finer material, replaced bulrush as a primary material for weaving. Pine needles and Palmetto are used in some baskets for design. Originally used as winnowing fans to separate the rice seed from its chaff, sweetgrass baskets are regarded among the nation’s most prized cultural souvenirs. The coiled sweetgrass basket is a historically significant example of African heritage transported to South Carolina by enslaved African people. Today the West African descendants of Gullah Geechie ancestry keep the basket-making tradition alive in Mount Pleasant & Charleston SC. The Smithsonian American Art Museum's permanent collection includes a sweetgrass basket made by Mary Jackson of Charleston.

Sweetgrass baskets are very durable and can be used for many applications. This is a piece of art that everyone should have in their home that will last for many years. These baskets have been handed down from generation to generation.

Please note:  Because these art pieces are 100% handwoven all sweetgrass basket products are one of a kind even though some of them look similar they are all different. No two pieces of sweetgrass art are the same.