• Aromatic sweetgrass is Debora’s primary material
• She uses gourd segments to shape her coiled baskets
• Each of her pieces is a unique, free-form sculpture

Debora Muhl’s love for basketweaving started when she bought a kit and made a melon basket out of rattan reed. "I spent decades developing my skills in traditional coiling techniques, eventually adapting them to make abstract artworks," she says. Debora works intuitively to create her deconstructed baskets, using grasses sourced by Native Americans and sewn together with waxed linen or artificial sinew. Pushing the possibilities of the material, she bends, separates and sometimes coils backward to achieve her designs. She also incorporates unexpected elements such as shells, branches and semi-precious beads. Debora’s work is collected internationally and held in permanent museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.