Our fair wage Jute basketsare hand-woven, in the traditional Bengal style, usually from single lengths of jute plait. Want to know more? We've got some hands-on video instruction right this way (we're still working on activating smell-o-vision). Remove, reshape, and let dry completely on a towel. Simply submerge the basket in water (keeping the leather handle above the water line) for 5-10 minutes-at which point the sweet scent of the grass will waft around you BONUS. If an errant labrador whaps yours out of shape or it gets crushed in a closet, it's easy to reform it.

These classic grass baskets are also reshapeable (!). These sustainably harvested grass fibers are super hardy and the traditional shapes of the baskets (the easily schleppable 'shopper' and flat-bottomed floor basket) are just as useful as a home for your pile of fluffy blankets they are for carrying your shopdog, er, farmer's market bounty around. Our Grass Bolga + Floor basketsare hand-woven in Africa from the sweet-smelling elephant grasses that grow wild on the savannas there. Like so many beautiful artisan traditions, the shapes of most baskets are directly tied to their uses and the style of their construction is dictated by what materials grow naturally in the environs of their creation.

weaving a basket tailored to its very own purpose was the logical solution for the earliest humans. From de-cluttering the first cave to wrangling whatever tiskets currently need wrangling in your home this very afternoon, a good basket gets the job done.īefore farms and tables even existed, the humble basket was the original locavore sensation. Baskets are perhaps the very first objects of both use and beauty, the original home good. Their multitude of uses is written right into their very names! Infinitely utilitarian and completely beautiful in their variations, baskets definitely prove that humans have been saying 'oh gosh, we REALLY need somewhere to put this STUFF!' for literally tens of thousands of years.

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