Name: Natural Brown Basket
SKU: natural-brown-basket-2
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Woven Storage Basket

This unique storage basket was handmade in Colombia with Iraca’s palm leaf, a local natural fiber, and left undyed. Its talented weaver is part of a woman’s association located in the south of the country, in an area strongly hit by the internal conflict. Today, this association is giving to more than 90 artisans the possibility to get a fair income, and we strive to help them.

Use this beautiful basket for storage all over the house, or use it as a planter.

Each basket is totally handmade and thus unique. Therefore, you may find slight variations or imperfections.

Description

A natural palm basket handmade in Colombia

This simple but beautiful storage basket has been handwoven with Iraca’s palm leaf, and left undyed. Indigenous people in pre-hispanic times were already using this material to make baskets, but also textiles and hats. The weaving technics were are also the ones of the native people, that were passed on from a generation to the other one.

The weaver who produced this fabulous basket is part of the “Association of weavers Juanita”. This association employs 90 artisans, most of them women, in an area strongly affected by the internal Colombian conflict. The weaving of these baskets often represents the only revenue stream for a whole family.

You can use this basket for storage all around the house: use it to store baby’s toys, slippers, magazines… You can also use it as a paper bin, as a flower pot, or also tu put a beautiful bunch of dried cut flowers.

If you would like to learn more about the story behind our baskets.

Each basket is totally handmade and thus unique. Thus you may find slight variations or imperfections.

Additional information

Material	Iraca's palm leaf
Size	Ht 24 cm x Diam 25 cm

Natural Brown Basket

Woven Storage Basket

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Description

A natural palm basket handmade in Colombia

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