Usiku Storage Basket, Small - Black Coal

The Usiku black storage basket is a 3133 fave! It can be put to good use all over your home from the kitchen to the bathroom to the fireside. 

This beautiful basket looks great in any setting and there are many ways you can use them. Use it on your dressing table and fill it with jewellery, in your office as a desk tidy or use them as a stylish planter for your favourite succulent. 

The black coal colour is super sleek and would suite a home of minimal style. Each hand woven in South Western Kenya.

Also available in size Medium + Large. See more from The Basket Room here.

HANDMADE IN KENYA.

NOTES

These blocked colour baskets are hand made by a small Kenyan weaving cooperative of around forty members and a dye manager dedicated to maintaining colour quality and consistency.

Baskets are all made from local sisal grass which is purchased ready-rolled when orders for these baskets come in from The Basket Room. This is then hand-dyed in large vats of boiling water and hung out to dry before a traditional twining method is used to create each basket. This weaving group is a highly accomplished collective of craftswomen who have practised this meticulous art from a young age, having been taught by mothers and grandmothers.

Engaging with all the principles of fair trade, our partnership with this small weaving cooperative empowers women to support their families with a flexible income in the dry seasons, where subsistence farming often fails to deliver everything the family needs to thrive. Buy one of our woven baskets and you actively support these weavers and their families. Each beautifully woven basket is supplied with a thank you card from the weaving cooperative.

DETAILS

Colour: Black Coal

Material:  Sisal + Branded Leather tab

Size: 13cm D x 13cm H

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