Small Magenta & Natural Woven Basket

These vintage pink and white colour block baskets are ethically produced in three handy sizes, woven from indigenous sisal grass in rural Kenya. Use your woven storage basket for keeping your hair accessories and toiletries organized, or fill with children’s toys, remote controls and gloves and hats. These round sisal baskets also make beautiful woven planters for your houseplants – and wonderful new home gifts. Wherever and however you choose to use your new woven basket it is sure to bring a splash of vibrant Kenyan colour and rich texture to your home. 

The Basket Room is proud to work with weaving groups in several rural corners of Africa, and the talented craftswomen in this women’s weaving group are brilliant at producing these repeat design baskets, using their tape measures to produce three set sizes.  The women behind our baskets have woven from a young age: this careful, age-old craft is passed along the female line, from grandmothers to mothers to daughters. Sisal grass is sourced ready-rolled when orders come in, and is hand-dyed in large vats before a traditional twining method is used to produce each basket. Where once these women used to have to travel to Nairobi to sell their woven baskets, today The Basket Room places regular and fairly-paid orders with this talented group, and completed baskets are stored in purpose-built mud huts before being shipped to the UK. 

When you purchase one of these gorgeous colour block baskets you help us keep this traditional craft alive for future generations of weavers to make a safe and sustainable income from. 

Material:  SISAL & BRANDED LEATHER TAB

Approx dimensions: 19-21cm diameter, 14.5-16cm high

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