Short answers, pulled from the story.
The oldest known baskets were discovered in Faiyum in upper Egypt and carbon dated to between 10,000 and 12,000 years old. This predates any established archaeological evidence for pottery vessels. The exact origin of basket weaving cannot be precisely dated because natural materials like grass and wood decay and leave little trace.
The oldest and largest complete basket was discovered in the Negev in the Middle East and dates to approximately 10,500 years old.
Basketry is classified into four types: coiled basketry using grasses, rushes, and pine needles; plaiting basketry using wide materials like palms, yucca, or New Zealand flax; twining basketry using roots and tree bark where two or more weavers cross each other through stiff spokes; and wicker and splint basketry using reed, cane, willow, oak, and ash.
Louisa Keyser, known as Dat So La Lee, was a Washoe weaver who is arguably the most famous Native American basket weaver. Lena Frank Dick, born in 1889 and also Washoe, followed Keyser by one generation, and her baskets were frequently mistaken for Keyser's.
In the late 1960s, only three elderly women still knew how to weave Zulu baskets, as tin and plastic containers had replaced the craft's practical function. Kjell Lofroth, a Swedish minister in South Africa, formed the Vukani Arts Association to financially support single women and their families, enabling those three weavers to teach others and revive the tradition.
Mary Jackson is a world-famous African-American sweetgrass basket weaver who was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 for her basket weaving work.