Looking for craftsmen to demonstrate their ancient arts at the 1950 Kutztown Folk Festival, Dr. Alfred L. Shoemaker came upon a willow basket-maker named Ollie Strauser, from Pricetown in the Oley ...
CEDAR RAPIDS - Joanna Schanz has no idea how many willow baskets she's woven over the past half century. 'No, absolutely not,” she said, laughing. Suffice to say Schanz has woven more than a few. She ...
Catherine Sanchez Phoenix of the Western Shoshone Indian tribe never learned to weave traditional Native American willow baskets. It was something she had always wanted to do, she said. On Saturday, ...