Although there are currently no basket makers among the Bayou Lacombe Choctaw, Mathilde Johnson, the last traditional weaver, spent twelve years teaching the traditional craft to Tom Colvin, a British-American. Making only traditional forms and using traditional colors, he is one of the few who can make a double weave basket. Since he is not Native American, he is listed under Domestic Crafts. The Clifton Choctaw still make white oak baskets which have traditionally been made both for supplemental income and home use. The pinestraw baskets reflect their bold sense of color and unorthodox shape.
Quilts embody the same community values.
Although quilting stitches often follow the fan pattern common in the U.S. South, traditional piecing patterns place strips of fabric in uniquely asymmetrical designs. Sewn together with various traditional stitches using natural or dyed raffia, they are frequently decorated with flowers of raffia or small pinecones. Baskets of wire grass are made more rarely because of the scarcity of the grass. Since the 1960s, several basket makers make effigy baskets in the form of bears, crabs, frogs, and crawfish. Innovation within traditional boundaries is clearly, still an active force in folk crafts.