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Fashion Revolution: Who Made Your Baskets?

The Basket Room Fashion Revolution Week

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?

Tagged: Fairtrade Fashion Revolution Sustainable Development

The Basket Room x Living Pattern Giveaway

We are really excited to be partnering with Living Pattern to give you the chance of winning one of their Monstera Pattern Study Prints and one of our Mimea, Colour Block...

Tagged: Competition styling

#INSPIRINGMUMS and the Changing Face of Motherhood

As part of our #InspiringMums campaign for Mother's Day, we chatted to creative entrepreneur Molly Mahon about motherhood and the challenges she has overcome in managing her own business, three children and her recent diagnosis of breast cancer.

Tagged: mother's day

Weaving for Equality: International Women’s Day 2017

It’s International Women’s Day on 8th March, and this year our rally cry is #BeBoldForChange. So earlier this week we caught up with two members of the Kenyan weaving cooperative we work with: Peninah and Florence. Here’s what these talented craftswomen have to say about being working women in 2017, and the barriers they have overcome through basket weaving and working within a cooperative.

Tagged: African Baskets Colourful Baskets Fairtrade Inter International Womens Day Kenyan Weavers

Create a Boho-Inspired Interior with an Indoor Jungle

This year we are seeing a move towards more natural home interiors; a reconnection with nature and with slowing down. ‘Greenery’, Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2017, is making us want to ditch the minimalism trend and bring the outside in.

Tagged: African Baskets Colourful Baskets interior design

A Christmas Message from The Weavers

""We started as a small group but now we've grown not just in numbers, but also as individuals....To everyone that buys these baskets, we say Asante sana sana (Thank you so so much).

Tagged: African Baskets interior design Kenyan Weavers

We meet the Yarn Weavers of Wote!

On our recent visit to Kenya in October (now feels like a very long time ago!) we made arrangements to visit a weaving cooperative that we started working with earlier this year...