The Basket Sewers

Logline

The Senegambian coiling technique that became the Sea Islands' most enduring living art.

What the episode covers

• The Senegambian origin — rice-country coiling technique that traveled with the enslaved.
• Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — the surviving sweetgrass corridor along Highway 17.
• The threats: development, sweetgrass access loss, generational transfer under strain.

Production notes

Community-attributed traditional music only, no post-1928 material. All primary sources public domain (Library of Congress, National Archives, community archives) or community-controlled oral history. Screenplay filed with U.S. Copyright Office as part of the Gullah Geechee Biz Season 1 deposit.

Attribution

Written & Directed by Darryl Elliott Brown
Produced by Darryl Elliott Brown
A Gullah Geechee Biz Production
© 2026 Darryl Elliott Brown