TUKIO: Charcoal Stripe Woven Storage Basket

With its earthy, geometric band of charcoal and moshi across its middle, these TUKIO baskets are produced in three different sizes, so there is one for practically every home storage need. The wonderful thing about these woven baskets is that their uses will keep evolving with your needs: a woven desk tidy will become a woven planter, a woven floor basket in the sitting room might make its way to a bedroom or bathroom, playroom or even a utility room over time. The female artisans behind these natural woven baskets all learned to weave baskets from their mothers and grandmothers, and practise this traditional Kenyan craft within a small weaving group in rural Kenya. We visit this talented group as often as we can, and have built a strong bond with the weavers and their chairlady, Madam Dorcas. Where once these weavers would undertake the long journey to Nairobi to sell their work at markets, The Basket Room now places regular orders with them, enabling these women to work safely from home. Basket weaving is that is portable, sociable and flexible work: these women weave in snippets of time throughout the day and the week, fitting in this reliable work around childcare and domestic duties. Weaving work supplements incomes made from farming, which can be unpredictable in the dry seasons. Material: SISAL & BRANDED LEATHER TAB Dimensions: Small 17-19cm Dia x 17-19cm H / 7" Dia x 7" H Medium 22-24cm Dia x 22-24cm H / 9" Dia x 9" H Large 27-29cm Dia x 27-29cm H / 11" Dia x 11" H Please note, as this is a handmade product, dimensions & colour may vary from those shown in the photographs. HANDMADE IN KENYA