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...

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

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

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

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

Katrina Maney weaves white oak baskets dyed with bloodroot and walnut. She has made baskets...

Louise Goings makes Cherokee white oak baskets. She begins by searching out a white oak...

Ed and Christina Goings are a young Cherokee couple who demonstrate a variety of Cherokee...

Doug Elliott was raised in Maryland where he developed a passion for the natural world...

Emma Jackson Garrett made river cane baskets, the oldest basketry tradition among the Cherokee. Only...