ITALE: Grey Colour Block Woven Basket
Description
Bring a little scandi style to the home with these beautiful soft grey and natural colour block baskets, hand woven in South Western Kenya. ITALE looks stunning on a nightstand or dressing table, filled with jewellery or scarves, or homing your favorite succulent or cacti plant as a stylish planter. Pop yours in the bathroom and use as a storage basket for loo rolls or toiletries, or bring a splash of calm to your work space by using yours as a chic desk tidy. Need more inspiration? Check out our basket uses page HERE.
These blocked colour baskets are hand made by a small Kenyan weaving cooperative of around forty members and a dye manager dedicated to maintaining colour quality and consistency. Baskets are all made from local sisal grass which is purchased ready-rolled when orders for these baskets come in from The Basket Room. This is then hand-dyed in large vats of boiling water and hung out to dry before a traditional twining method is used to create each basket. This weaving group is a highly accomplished collective of craftswomen who have practised this meticulous art from a young age, having been taught by mothers and grandmothers.
Our partnership with this small weaving cooperative empowers women to support their families with a flexible income in the dry seasons, where subsistence farming often fails to deliver everything the family needs to thrive. Buy one of our woven baskets and you actively support these weavers and their families. Each beautifully woven basket is supplied with a thank you card from the weaving cooperative, and you can meet these weavers right HERE.
Material: SISAL & BRANDED LEATHER TAB
Dimensions:
XS: 14-16CM DIA x 9.5-10.50CM H
SMALL: 19-21CM DIA x 14.5-15.5CM H
MEDIUM: 23-27CM DIA x 19-21CM H
If you need a specific size please let us know prior to placing your order.
Please note, as this is a handmade product, dimensions & colour may vary from those shown in the photographs.
HANDMADE IN KENYA
Our journey into sustainable style began in Kenya, and the lion’s share of our woven baskets are Kenyan-made. Whilst every region of Kenya boasts its own rich natural bounty, each cooperative we partner with offers expertise in its own unique form of basketry. Weaving, dyeing and grass-rolling techniques differ across the regions as much as basket shapes, patterns and structures. These precious crafts are woven through the generations within families - passed along continuous thread from mother to daughter - protecting and preserving an art form as old as man.
Vast and colourful, vibrant and bursting with natural beauty and style, our fair trade baskets are as eclectic as their homeland and its people. From sisal grass to doum palm, banana leaf fibres to palm leaf, each weaving cooperative works with what is locally available and only what can be sustainably sourced, to produce beautiful baskets which are 100% Kenyan made, and ethically produced. All cow hide bag tags, straps, and basket labels are made from leather sourced as a by-product of the food industry. Natural dyes come from pounded roots, bark and vegetables of the region, whilst all synthetic dyes are sustainably sourced.
From the Kamba tribe to the camel-herding Ariaal pastoralists of Northern Kenya, you can read more about the lives of the Kenyan weavers we work with - and the wonderful baskets they produce - below.
Meet The Artisans
Who Made Your Basket?
United KingdomItaly Basket
Good. Very prompt service.
The Basket Room
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United KingdomLove the neutral look
I really love these baskets. They help to keep the home tidier and I particularly love the neutral colours as they can fit in with any surroundings.
The Basket Room
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United KingdomLovely baskets
Always good, always gorgeous baskets. I’ll never stop loving them
The Basket Room
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United KingdomBeautifully made and wonderfully useful
I actually ordered the wrong colour so I am exchanging this one for one of the Chali range which I prefer. Very nice girl is sorting it out for me when I phoned. A great service.
The Basket Room
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United KingdomMissing dimensions
Excellent prompt service and a quality item. I imagine this product is somewhat “organic”, so precise dimensions will vary, but an approximation would be really helpful. The baskets were bigger than expected/wanted, but I imagine this would be a positive for some, just not me, hence 4* not 5.
The Basket Room
Thank you for your review. All listings have the dimension brackets listed on the product description. If you are after an exact size, please do send us an email and we will do our upmost to find one as close to this as possible! Thanks for shopping at The Basket Room
United KingdomExcellent
I bought these baskets for my mum as a present and she absolutely loved them. The quality is excellent and they look even better in real life than in the photos.
The Basket Room
Thank you for your review and shopping with The Basket Room. Glad to hear your Mum also loved the baskets!
United KingdomExcellent
Excellent. Speedy delivery, beautiful baskets, immediate refund for one item I ordered and didn’t need in the end… very very happy!
The Basket Room
Thank you for your review and shopping with us at The Basket Room. We are glad to hear you had a positive experience and we hope to see you again soon!
