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Under the shadow of the Bevo Mill, a reproduction windmill housing a famous brewery on Gravois in Saint Louis, my grandmother Ruth Siegfried had a small house, and I grew up there in the area called Dutchtown. We were not Dutch; we came from Bavaria on my grandfather’s side. German immigrants were often referred to […]

JW has a tall, rectangular, two-tiered rattan Chinese basket circa 1900. She was inspired to write me because of my previous article on Victorian Bride’s Baskets. Her Chinese basket is ALSO a bride’s basket traditionally given in the Guo Da Li pre-wedding processional during the betrothal or engagement period, a gift from the groom’s family […]

HH has a lovely 10” tall Panamanian basket made by indigenous Darién Rainforest artists in the Wounaan tradition; you will see a lifelike bat design woven into the fibers. I would like to tell you that these naturalistic designs have been part of the tradition for thousands of years, but that would be misleading. Not […]