The Basket Room / Kubwa / Fresh Green Wool and Sisal Tote Bag

With its lush lido green stripes and a contrasting blue base, kubwa is a yarn and sisal basket bag that’s the perfect accessory for summer festivals, market trips and the beach. 

The Basket Room partners with a network of twelve kenyan weaving groups - with over thirty weavers in each group – to produce these green and blue striped woven totes. Weaving each basket bag can take up to six days: this is flexible work that fits in around domestic work, childcare and farming. Finished baskets are then sent to a nairobi leather workshop where cow hide shoulder straps are produced and attached by skilled leatherworkers. 

Basket weaving is a skill passed from grandmothers to mothers to daughters all over africa, and what was once a pastime is now a profitable craft for many skilled women.

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