The Traditional Sweetgrass Basket Making and Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop

Artisans

Basket maker

Publicity

Sweetgrass baskets

Baskets

Eggs

Arts, Ukrainian

Decorative arts

Domestic arts

Ukrainian American art

Pysanky

Workshops (Adult education)

Education

Teaching of folklore

African Americans

Thirty-five slides. Images from 1989 spring folk workshop, arranged by Florida folklorist Fant and held at the Stephen Foster Center. The instructors were Garrison and Gurley. Garrison grew up in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, but lived in Jacksonville from the 1960s on. She learned sweetgrass basket making, a New World adaptation of an Old World skill, at age three from her family in South Carolina. She made her basket by coiling pine needles and sweetgrass, then sewing them with palmetto frond strips, using a spoon (called a bone) to help bind the strips through. Gurley was born in a village in the Ukraine, where she learned traditional egg decorating (pysanky). Her family emigrated to the US just after World War II, and moved to Florida in 1973 (first White Springs, later St. Petersburg). Using a stylus called a kystka, she draws the designs with wax, then dips the egg into various paints for the many colors used.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1705

1989-03-11

Florida Folklife Program

Stephen Foster Center

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1705

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3

Florida Folk Arts Survey

Fant, Debbie

Garrison, Margaret, 1944-

Gurley, Lubow Dochwat

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