Most everyone who lives in South Carolina, and probably most who have visited here, know the popularity of our sweetgrass basket makers. But, when sweetgrass began to become more scarce, our next guest taught herself how to use bulrush, a darker, more brittle marsh grass to make what she calls her Beaufort Basket which is now on display at premier locations around the country, including the Smithsonian.
Mike Switzer interviews Jery Bennett-Taylor, a master craftswoman who intertwines her Gullah heritage with West African tradition in her business, Jery’s Baskets, a runner-up in the crafts category in this year’s Made in the South Awards from Garden and Gun magazine.
