Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. NORTHAMPTON — In the shade of the trees, hands carefully and skillfully weave willow ...

The ancient Native tradition of weaving baskets is now grabbing the attention of the contemporary art world. Jeffrey Brown visited one artist who is taking the form in new directions. It's for our ...

PORT ANGELES — Harvest Moon — a Quinault ambassador, master basket weaver, historian and storyteller — will be the featured speaker at the Studium Generale lecture series today. Moon will speak from ...

GOLD HILL — Today, class, we have a lesson in making baskets. We will not be making just any old basket, but fine ash wood baskets using traditional methods of preparing the wooden “splints.” Many ...

GOLDENDALE, Wash. — They spoke with their hands and made their deepest inner thoughts come to life. With hemp, corn husk and bark, they wove or plaited or coiled imagery that will endure through the ...

DULUTH - It was like a Norman Rockwell painting. Four people hoisted a large log onto their shoulders. Through the snow, they trudged about 100 feet from a ground-level workshop to a Congdon Park ...

TOPPENISH, Wash. -- The next Let's Make Wa'paas class, which takes place Monday, will also include information on crafting flat wa'paas and cedar bark baskets and basket hats. Hosted by Bessie Wilson ...

LAPUSH — “If you aren’t in the mood, don’t weave; it shows up in the work.” That’s one of the many things Quileute tribal member Cathy Salazar has learned after 16 years of basket weaving. “The weave ...

When Andrea Herman discovered basket weaving at a community education class back in the ’80s, she immediately fell in love with the craft, which is thought to be as old as mankind. “I used to ...