Kudzu & Creativity: An Interview with Nancy Basket | Kudzu Basket | Primitive Art

Welcome Inside the Basketmaker's Studio with Matt Tommey. A TH-cam show featuring basketry artists from around the world. In this episode, Matt talks to kudzu basket maker, Nancy Basket.
Nancy Basket has been weaving for well over 30 years now. Originally from Washington State, she found her way to South Carolina and fell in love with the invasive vine called Kudzu. Her unique aesthetic is created by coiling roughly split kudzu vines into beautiful works of rustic, primitive art. She now spends her time teaching and creating these beautiful kudzu baskets as well as lighting installation pieces for both residential and commercial spaces.
For more information on Nancy Basket, visit www.NancyBasket.com
And if you’re wanting to know more about making baskets with natural materials like kudzu, here are 5 great links:
✅ 7 Tips for Making Baskets with Natural Materials www.matttommey.com/basket-wea...
✅ Weaving Kudzu into Art www.matttommey.com/blog/weavi...
✅ How to Weave a Basket with Kudzu Climbers www.matttommey.com/basket-wea...
✅ How to Weave a Basket with Kudzu Runners www.matttommey.com/basket-wea...
✅ Ready to start learning how to make baskets with natural materials? Then check out my online course “Twining with Soft Natural Materials”: naturalbasketry.teachable.com...

[@rhondawilson-williams7852]

I LOVE Nancy! She comes to our Camp and teaches the campers. It’s my honor that I get to hang out with her as her “assistant”!

[@cyndiesmith2516]

Nancy is awesome!

[@chickadeeacres3864]

"I don't see weeds anymore I see baskets" that speaks to me. Warms my heart. That’s exactly how I feel about nature. Everything we need is at our fingertips. It’s all raw material for living your best life.

[@Scperma]

Love you guys. Both of you inspired me to make mimosa and kudzu baskets and now I’m heading to my first art festivals next month. I was raised in Upstate South Carolina on a farm moved to Alaska at age 14 and learned how to weave cedar bark from an indigenous lady who taught me so much, and I caught the weaver feaver😂. Out there I wove roots and bark. When I moved back here at 18 and was looking for material and stumbled across your guys page! Couldn’t be more greatful, God lead me to your page. I wouldn’t doubt we will connect in the art world!

[@amywetmore9647]

Great to see an interview with Nancy Basket and you. I've been following both of your work for a long time and it's fun to see you both comparing notes. I grew up on a property that was "plagued' with kudzu and I've tried for years to figure out what to do with it and have ended up getting into kudzu basket weaving and found you both through searches for how to make kudzu baskets online. Happy to see more information available..

[@CharlotteFairchild]

Charlotte Fairchild may love kudzu more than both of you! I wrote songs on my TH-cam channel about kudzu. You are both artists I admire!

[@historygradstu]

lived in SC, not far from Union... all my life, Kudzu sucks, I kill it every chance I get, worse than fire ants....maybe another Yankee can move in and weave some fire ants