Basketmaking – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Eva Wolfe

Eva Wolfe was an accomplished weaver of rivercane baskets, a traditional type of Cherokee basketry....

Emma Taylor was widely recognized as an especially gifted and productive basket maker in the...

Chuck and Peggy Patrick, natives of Blairsville, Georgia, grew up learning traditional mountain music and...

Shirley Cloer is a Cherokee artist and manager of the Oconaluftee Indian Village in Cherokee....

A once almost-lost art, Cherokee finger weaving is now practiced by a few very talented...

When Eloise Maney was in college, she took an art class in which there was...

Shirley Taylor makes white oak baskets dyed with walnut and bloodroot. She can also demonstrate...

Emily Smith makes white oak baskets and honeysuckle baskets with materials gathered from the woods...

Polly Rattler teaches hands-on workshops in corn shuck doll making, beadwork, and miniature basketmaking. She...

Shirley Jackson Oswalt was a celebrated Cherokee beadworker, gourd carver, and maker of white oak...

Betty Maney makes white oak baskets, pottery, Cherokee dolls, and a variety of beadwork pieces....

Lucille Lossiah makes double and single weave baskets from white oak, maple, and rivercane. She...