13 inch Small Fanner Sweetgrass Basket
A Gullah fanner basket, made to be filled and set on the table
Turn it in your hands and the stitches show you how it was made. Each cream strip of palmetto is set on a slant, row after row, so they climb from the center of the floor to the rim in one slow spiral.
It's a fanner, the wide, shallow shape Lowcountry households once used to winnow rice. Corey sewed this one in sage-green sweetgrass with a band of darker bulrush low on the sides, and the rim rolls over in a loose wave. At 13 inches across, it holds a loaf and a wedge of cheese with room to cut, or a dozen biscuits for a crowd.
Sweetgrass starts out this green and goes gold over the years, faster if you use it. That's how Corey would have it.
Stitches that climb in a spiral
Room for a loaf and a wedge of cheese
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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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