SAYARI: Medium Brown Sisal Basket

£ 34.00 £ 49.00
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The SAYARI is a earthy collaboration of 100% natural dyes: brown, black and natural stripes combine in a most striking, geometric effect. This striped basket is truly unique, hand woven in Kenya’s rural Coastal Region by a skilled craftswoman working with her preferred weave patterns and choice of natural dyes. Like what you see? Snap yours up now, because this is a rare, one-off woven basket. 

The making process is laborious and highly skilled. Sisal grass is hand stripped using wooden tools and bare feet, and then it is hand rolled to a very fine twine on the thighs before being woven using a classic twining technique. The dyes used to create the stunning layers of colour in SAYARI are 100% natural, and hand-dyed in large vats of boiling water.

This unique woven basket will bring a splash of natural Kenyan colour to any corner of the home. Pop your SAYARI in the larder for storing fruit or veg, or use it in the bathroom for tidying away loo rolls or toiletries. Fill yours with toys, blankets and books in the playroom, or use yours as a tidy for jewellery, scarves and trinkets. For more basket inspiration, see our uses page HERE.

The Basket Room is proud to partner with a Community Based Organisation which works on behalf of several women’s weaving cooperatives in Kenya, ensuring pay and decent working conditions. Profits from sales and all donations to the CBO are used to offer further support to these women’s groups. For these women’s groups, basket weaving is a portable, income-generating craft, and it takes place primarily during the dry seasons where crop production dwindles. Each basket comes with a thank you card from the cooperative who made yours – and you can meet the weavers HERE.



Material:  SISAL

Dimensions: 23cm Dia x 22cm H

Please note, as this is a handmade product, dimensions & colour may vary from those shown in the photographs.

 

HANDMADE IN KENYA

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