There are big sweetgrass baskets, but then there is Mount Pleasant artisan Corey Alston’s BIG sweetgrass basket that was unveiled Feb. 19 at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia.
This basket is so big that the museum is entering it as a candidate for the Guiness Book of World Records as the largest basket of its kind on the planet, said the museum’s history curator Ramon Jackson.
At 5 feet high and nearly 4 feet across with 80 pounds of tan sweetgrass and palmetto fronds, red long-leaf pine needles and brown marsh bulrush, the basket represents “the biggest and baddest of my career,” said the 44-year-old Alston, who has been sewing baskets for nearly 25 years…