NDOO: Blue Check & Flower Bucket Bag
Time to kickstart that bucket list, with the silhouette that never goes out of fashion. A handwoven sisal bucket bag in hip blue chequerboard squares, finished with clashing pink and orange daisies. Cute NDOO boasts a handwoven twisted handle and no leather labelling, this one’s 100% vegan and totally plastic-free: a bag for the future. Finished with our new brass logo pin, it’s the perfect day-to-night bag, adding a touch of boho chic to any outfit!
This limited-edition bucket bag was produced by a Kenyan weaving group we have partnered with since we first launched The Basket Room. Each pretty daisy has been meticulously hand embroidered by a gifted artist living and working in Nairobi with whom we have collaborated for several years. All leatherwork carefully produced and stitched by a team of dedicated leatherworkers we also have a strong and close relationship with.
NDOO is a very special woven accessory we have produced in collaboration with British accessories designer Hannah Harrison. You can read all about this liberating collaboration, inspired by far flung escapes, here.
As the logo tag is made from recycled brass, please be aware there may be some small marks - to keep yours looking shiny use water mixed with lemon juice or any standard brass cleaning product
Materials: SISAL,
KENANA COTTON & BRASS
Dimensions: 18cm H x 14cm Dia
(Handle Drop - 16cm)
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.
