Large Market Basket - Pick of the day
Our best-selling fair trade African market basket, chosen fresh from current stock: the large Bolga market basket is the everyday workhorse customers keep coming back for.
Woven in Ghana from tough Bolga elephant grass and finished with a leather-wrapped handle, it is roomy, strong and endlessly useful. This is a pick-of-the-day piece: a one-of-a-kind, multicolor basket selected for you. Every basket is handmade and fairly traded.
Carry groceries and market hauls, corral toys or laundry, or use it as a woven floor accent. Baskets arrive collapsed with simple shaping instructions.
You will receive one multicolor basket, each one of a kind. Reshape by briefly dipping in water (keep the leather dry), shaping by hand and letting it dry.
Product Size: Approximately 16.5 Inches Wide x 9 Inches Tall (plus handle(s))
Material: Leather, Veta Vera (Elephant) Grass
Weaving Details
Weavers collect veta vera straw, which is at the top of the grass known locally as kinkahe, leaving the grass roots in the soil to regrow. Then each piece is split in half vertically.
Each half of the split straw is then strengthened by rolling it into a tight twist.
The straw is put in bunches and dyed in boiling water. For bright colors the straw is dyed yellow first, then the color.
Weaving Bolga baskets in Ghana
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.
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