For white tourists, "authentic" black traditions re-emerged at an exotic distance, as in the marketing of sea grass basketry, the presence of picturesque street vendors at the annual Azalea Festival, and the preservation of black spirituals, as performed in the 1920s by whites "dressed in hoop skirts and in tuxedos with antebellum-era bow ties.

A basketweave font representing Native American basketry was selected for the title.

izimbenge) in Zulu, a word that also refers to the basketry beer pot lids that were the inspiration for the telephone wire forms.