WomenCraft Basket Weaving to Make Lives Better
Craft has often been used as a tool for unity, healing and empowerment, harnessing the traditional skills…
Craft has often been used as a tool for unity, healing and empowerment, harnessing the traditional skills…
While catching up on the latest international tradeshows I came across some simple elegant baskets by Twenty…
Tucked away in Harare’s Miombo Woodland you will find Mutapo, a ceramic studio producing one-of-a-kind collectable crockery….
Basketry is a skill that has been practiced up and down the continent for centuries with examples…
I recently came across these intriguing half basket, half ceramic vessels, which I found out to be…
Bolgatanga in Ghana’s Upper East Region is synonymous with basket weaving, and the distinctive round-bellied Bolga Market…
Luxury artisanal accessory brand AAKS has launched a stunning home decor collection inspired by the theme Weaving…
Safari Fusion [Africa Inspired] Loving Safari Fusion’s beautifully styled 2015-16 Lookbook entitled, Woven & Stitched. The colourful,…
Gone Rural Hand Painted Baskets at Maud Interiors [Eswatini / Swaziland] [Image credit: Gone Rural Hand Painted…
Donna Wilson and People of the Sun for SCP [Image credit: Blocks and Peaks Basket Collection –…
Lupane Women’s Centre [Zimbabwe] [Image credit: Baskets – Lupane Women’s Centre in Partnership with Kingston Project Africa] Looking…
cc Mbare [Africa Inspired] [Image credits: Tavie Co-operative, Points Du Jour Basket – Mbare] A few months…
Madwa [Madagascar / South Africa / Eswatini / Swaziland] [Image credits: Madwa] Inspired by craft and tradition, Madwa is…
Tavie Co-operative [Niger] The beauty of this woven dish radiates from its core, which features a…
Bolgatanga Baskets [Ghana] Last week the EU announced the potential banning of plastic bags as it…
Stephen Burks [Africa Inspired] Having grown up surrounded by basketry and woven grass products I do…
Gone Rural [Swaziland] Picking up from where I left off on my exploration into the different types…
The Jeddah Seat [Africa Inspired] [Image source: Elle Decoration – South Africa] Take a giant,…
Gahaya Links [Rwanda] [Image credits: top, Fairwinds Trading; bottom, Gahaya Links] Following on from my previous posting about the Zimbabwean…
The Basket Case Exhibition [Zimbabwe] [Image credit: BBC] I came across a photo-editorial on BBC about an exhibition called…