Product description
Colourful patterned woven baskets, useful in your home as planters for your flowering cacti or as flower pots for your indoor succulents. They make fabulous storage baskets and handy desk top stationary containers, bathroom supplies, toiletries and jewellery to hats, gloves and scarves with choice of sizes from x small to large.
Hand woven from sisal grass by a member of one of four rural women's weaving cooperatives in South Western Kenya,
Following all the key principles of fair trade, working with cooperatives in Africa empowers women to earn a flexible income in the dry seasons, where subsistence farming can fail to meet the needs of the family. Buy one of our woven baskets and you actively support these weavers’ livelihoods, and our commitment to fair trade. Each beautifully woven basket is supplied with a thank you card from the weaving cooperative,.
Background Information about The Basket Room
Perfect for storing your blankets and cushions, baskets are functional as well as beautiful additions to your home. The craft of basket weaving has been around for millennia and spans every continent with almost every family having one tucked away in their home without even knowing it. With The Basket Room its time to bring hand woven baskets back to the forefront of our homes; they have an amazing range of shapes and colours to choose from and all are ethically made and unique.
The Basket Room works with a Community Based Organisation in Kenya to produce these beautiful woven baskets and each purchase comes with a thank you card from the cooperative, so add a gorgeous hand woven basket to your home and help generations of weavers continue to weave for millennia to come.
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