Handmade With Real Sweetgrass

This are the largest dish we carry at this time. The large sweetgrass dish is 15inches wide and about 3 inches deep the medium sweetgrass dish 13 inches wide and about 2 inches deep. It is simply just a work of art. You can use this for a centerpiece on the table in the dining room, hang it on the wall or use it in your kitchen for onions, potatoes, or whatever you like.

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 here 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.