Sisal Coil Weave Bowl-21
Traditionally used to winnow grain and just as at home on a wall, this 17-inch sisal coil bowl is craft you can hang.
Weavers coil native grasses and wrap them tightly in sisal, the fiber of an agave plant prepared by hand, building a firm, shallow bowl in striking patterns. Every piece is handmade and fairly traded, with minor natural variation from bowl to bowl.
Hang it solo or in a cluster as woven wall decor, or set it out as a decorative catchall. As a coil basket it reads as both artifact and art.
You will receive one handwoven sisal coil bowl very similar to the one pictured, with minor variation in pattern and dye lot.
Product Size: Approximately 11.5-12.5 Inches Wide x 2.5-3.5 Inches Deep
Material: Grass, Sisal
Weaving Details
Natural materials for these baskets have been hand gathered or cultivated by the weavers. The inside of the coils consists of native grasses. Sisal fiber is then finely stitched on the outside of the coil. The Sisal plant, a species of Agave and close relative of the Yucca plant of the American Southwest, grows wild throughout Rwanda. Up to 1,000 fibers are stripped out of the sword-shaped leaves by pushing the leaf between a metal can and piece of wood to remove the pulp. The fine fibers that remain are then spun into long threads, and hand-woven using traditional patterns interpreted in modern colors.
Weaving baskets in Rwanda
In Rwanda, “the land of a thousand hills”, weavers from many tribes, including the recently warring Hutus and Tutsis, create sisal bowl baskets as symbols of peace, reconciliation, self- reliance and hope.
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