10.5 inch Sweetgrass Bread Basket
A Gullah sweetgrass bread basket, finished with hand-tied bulrush knots
Look for the knots. Corey has tied small rosettes of dark bulrush into the side of this basket, spaced around the upper band like buttons on a coat. They hold nothing up. They're there because he wanted them there.
It's deeper than a fanner, with sides that curve up into a rolled rim. Pale sweetgrass and darker bulrush trade places row by row, all sewn with cream palmetto. At ten and a half inches across, it holds rolls piled high with a napkin tucked over the top to keep them warm. The rest of the year it holds a bowl's worth of satsumas on the kitchen counter.
The green goes gold over the years, faster if you use it. That's how Corey would have it.
Knots tied by hand
Deep enough to keep bread warm
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In the Smithsonian. And on your table.
Made to be used, not shelved
He starts behind the dunes, not in the studio.
The maker
Corey Alston
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