Stitched With Love

For Andrea "Annie" Cayetano-Jefferson, a sixth-generation Gullah-Geechee basket artisan, the practice of intricately sewing together sweetgrass, bulrush, pine needles and palmetto into unique designs is an inherited “way of independence.”“I’m doing it the same way people have been for literally hundreds of years," Cayetano-Jefferson tells Shop TODAY in an interview. “The same way my ancestors have been doing it.”

Woven into the culture: Sweetgrass basketry workshop highlights Gullah Geechee tradition.

Eighth-generation sweetgrass basket artist Vera Manigault shows Dawn Rhodes how a handle can be attached to the basket Rhodes started Sunday in a workshop at the Arts Center of Greenwood.