Baskets of Africa continues to be featured in national magazines, highlighting our amazing baskets and our commitment to Fair Trade. Read the articles and features here.
Our collection of Fair Trade baskets covers all color palettes and purposes. Here are our top five basket choices for different folks on your gift-giving list.
African baskets look amazing when they are mounted on a wall. But how do you hang a basket on a wall? Here are some tips to help you get started.
Well, after 20 years we thought it was time for a new website! We’ve redesigned the site from the bottom up to make it easier to use and to include more features and information.
The last two years have been a difficult time for everyone, and that includes the basket weavers in Africa. Almost all of the weaving groups we work with told us that all of their buyers cancelled their orders when the pandemic began … except for us.
In the Western province of Zambia, not far from the border with Angola, the mostly Mbunda speaking people weave these ruggedly unique baskets.
For many generations, weaving has been a traditional skill of the Gurune people of northern Ghana. Mostly done by women, basket weaving and other handicrafts supplement these subsistence farmers’ incomes.
Since wire baskets are woven by many men due to the difficult nature of weaving wire, they are able to stay home on their tribal lands instead of moving to cities to look for work. In the rural groups we work with, the family units are preserved so that the weavers and their families can live more traditional lifestyles.
We feature beautiful and functional harvest and storage baskets from Mossi, Fulani and Tuareg weavers.
The age-old tradition of basket weaving is usually passed down from grandmother to granddaughter. This helps to preserve Zulu culture as the grandmothers have the opportunity to recite oral history and stories to the younger generations as they all weave together.