Woven Travels Blog
Meet Mbeti: Pressing For Progress in 2018
There has never been a more prudent time to press for progress and push for gender parity: encouraging friends, employers, family members and communities to think and behave in more gender-inclusive ways. So today, on International Women’s Day 2018, we’d like you to meet Mbeti.
Start a Lifelong Love Affair… With Yourself
New Year - New Neutrals
An evolution from the brights of new modern to the soothing salves of tea rose, lavender and grey.
For anyone with an obsession with all things house and home, the dominant palette for this year will already be lingering in your awareness in soothing swathes of tea rose, grey, peach, blush, lavender and mint.
2017: A Year in Baskets
As we get ready to close up shop for the Christmas break both here in Charlbury and in Nairobi, we can’t quite believe that another year has whistled by. To say it has been a whirlwind would be something of an understatement and it’s only now that we have really had the time to take stock of all that has happened in twelve quick months
A Cotswold and a Kenyan Christmas
So whilst Christmas in Charlbury is likely to include a few jugs of ale at The Bull Inn and some Morris Dancers, a frosty walk through Cornbury Park to spot the deer, and cosying up to watch The Snowman, a Kenyan Christmas might look a little bit like this…
Ariaal Style: A Meeting of Two Tribes
Oh Baby! We Now Sell Moses Baskets!
We’re thrilled to announce the joyous arrival of our hand woven Moses baskets, ethically hand made in Northern Ghana. Keep a close eye on little one while they nap by bringing one of these exquisite Moses baskets home.
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Beauty, Bicycle Baskets and Ferris Bueller - Meet Xanthe B!
Londoner Xanthe Berkeley caught our eye on Instagram some time ago. She’s a filmmaker and photographer with a thing for bold colour, the great outdoors, and pedalling around London on her famous yellow bike. We fell head over heels for the beautiful way she captures everyday moments: it speaks to our own appreciation for the art of slow living. And when Xanthe (pronounced Zan-thee) started using our APANA woven bicycle basket on her travels we fell in love a little bit more. Here are some snippets from a long overdue catchup…
Summer's In The Basket Bag
*HEAT KLAXON* Summer has LANDED! Whether you're off on your holidays soon or staying on home turf and doing the festival circuit this summer (and why not when the weather’s like this?) we'd love to see where you're taking your woven basket bags.
Fashion Revolution: Who Made Your Baskets?
We’re proudly supporting Fashion Revolution next week, because we wholeheartedly believe that fashion should feel good. Did you know that today only half of the 219 biggest fashion brands in the world know which factories their products are manufactured in? Or that only 25% of these big labels know where the zippers, buttons, threads and fabrics that make their clothes came from?
