Underwater Weaving Studio

Underwater Weaving Studio  | Brooklyn
Category: Home goods, Experience, Arts and Crafts

We are an American Basket Atelier rooted in elevated craftsmanship. Specializing in heirloom-quality rattan baskets for beauty and utility today, each handmade design is woven in Maine and Brooklyn by Erin and Peggy Pollard, along with a small team dedicated to the timeless preservation of ancient craft. 

The name itself is layered: rooted in the literal process of soaking weaving materials to make them supple, while also nodding to a phrase historically used to undermine vocational learning and domestic labor. By embracing “underwater basket weaving,” we turn what was once a punchline into a statement—one that centers softness, beauty, and slowness as sources of power.

Our baskets are born from a unique and powerful collaboration between two generations. It is the story of a mother, whose hands hold decades of mastery in the traditional art of basket weaving, and a daughter, whose eye has been shaped by years in the worlds of art, movement, fashion, and design.

Underwater Weaving Baskets and kits are available at Moda Operandi, Over The Moon, The Expert, Slow Roads, The Post Supply, Vestige, MADOO, The Citizenry, and more select independent shops nationwide.