Would you like to learn how to make items the way Native Americans did for centuries – with long pine needles collected from nature? If so, be sure to sign up for this class made available by The ...

Scottie Evans started a hobby of making baskets from pine needles when her friend, Marie Welch, introduced her to it some 20 years ago. Today Evans is still weaving and has learned to fine-tune ...

Eight participants learned how to tightly sew brown longleaf pine needles together to make decorative coils and baskets. Longleaf pines grow locally in Clay, Cleburne, Calhoun and Talladega ...

Members of the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas demonstrated how to harvest longleaf pine needles for basket making Nov. 19 at Harmony Church.

Try a new craft project with the kids. Pine needles have been used for centuries to make baskets and other fiber articles. Feed bunches of cleaned needles into a piece of large plastic drinking straw.

That doesn't necessarily apply to pine-needle basketmaking, at least as far as money's concerned. With the most expensive ingredient being a $4 bottle of soap, crafters can create homemade baskets ...