Product description
This fair trade bread basket is hand woven in Kenya from hand-dyed sisal grass. Featuring a bold stripes against a natural, undyed base, this ethical woven basket brings a burst of Kenyan colour to mealtimes.
The Basket Room works with a Community Based Organisation in Kenya to produce these woven bread baskets. This weaving collective produces unique woven bread baskets using their own designs and colourways, so each one is unique.
Making and selling baskets within the protection of a cooperative empowers these female weavers to support themselves and their families through the dry seasons, when farming fails to make ends meet. Weavers are paid a fair wage for each woven bread basket they produce, and can work to their own schedules.
Each basket comes with a thank you card from the 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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