10 inch Sweetgrass Bread Basket
A Gullah sweetgrass basket, made for the bread at your table
Look at the middle band first. Between rows of pale green sweetgrass, Corey Alston has sewn in a wide run of darker bulrush, so the basket wears a sash of color that's the plants' own. No dye anywhere in it.
Every row is stitched to the one below with a strip of cream palmetto, and the rim rolls over in a soft, uneven wave. At ten inches across, it's sized for a dozen dinner rolls under a linen napkin, passed down the table and set back in the middle.
New sweetgrass smells faintly of fresh hay. The colors warm with the years, and more so if you use it. That's how Corey would have it.
Pale sweetgrass, dark bulrush, cream palmetto
Sized for a dozen dinner rolls
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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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