AMA: Purple Stripe Square Storage Basket
Description
Bring a distinctly Ghanaian pop of colour and pattern to your home with these fabulous square storage baskets in purple and black stripes against a natural undyed grass base.
Use your storage woven baskets – also known as bolga baskets - as fun and stylish nursery tidies for nappies and creams, or pop a couple on your bathroom shelves for keeping hand towels and loo rolls tucked away. Strong enough for keeping kindling by the wood burner and ideal for stacking with magazines, newspapers and home office filing, these square storage baskets are wonderful solutions to keeping the home both stylish and orderly. Best of all, our storage baskets can also be used with the globally popular IKEA cubed shelving systems. Mix & match with our other square designs!
Each woven storage cube takes up to three days complete, woven by hand using local veta vera grass. The process is intricate: before weaving can begin, the grass is collected and split by hand, then hand-rolled and dyed.
Our bolga baskets each tell an important story about collaboration and sustainable living. In purchasing any of our woven baskets you become part of this narrative, directly supporting the weavers in becoming less dependent on the unpredictable nature of self-sufficiency farming. Every woven basket comes with a thank you card from the co-operative that made yours. You can meet the weavers from Ghana HERE.
Material: VETA VERA GRASS
Dimensions:
30-35W x 30H cm
As each basket is individually handmade, some variation in size and colour may occur. If your basket gets wet, simply leave it to dry naturally and re-shape.
HANDMADE IN GHANA
Our Ghanaian woven baskets are a celebration of Northern Ghana’s abundant natural raw material, and the age-old weaving skills of its people: sustainable style and ethical production, through and through. In our ongoing commitment to fair trade, our baskets are produced from natural materials indigenous to the region they are woven in.
Home of the hardy veta vera grass, Ghana is where our collections of sturdier, stiffer baskets are made: woven bike baskets, square, rectangular and circular storage baskets, bolga shopping baskets, dog baskets and baby Moses baskets. Where Kenyan sisal grass creates supple and pliable baskets and bags, Ghanaian veta vera grass produces more structured baskets.We partner with 24 weaving cooperatives and over 1000 weavers in Ghana, both male and female. This portable and flexible craft means that weavers can take their work home with them if preferred, completing their weaving around other household tasks and duties to create truly fair trade baskets. Bicycle baskets and storage baskets generally take around three days to complete, and the process – as you will see from the pictures – is meticulous.
"We wish to express our heartfelt appreciation to the customers who buy our baskets, which create employment for our women in Ghana. We say thank you and we wish to continue to do business with you next year." - Asabila, Cooperative Manager – Ghana
Shop the Log Basket Collection here.
Shop the Art Basket Collection here.
Shop the Bike Basket collection here.
Shop the Square, Rectangular and Circular Floor Storage Basket collection here.
Shop the Moses Basket Collection here.
Shop the Bolga Shopping Basket collection here.
Shop the Dog Basket collection here.
