Teardrop Basket

Description

The Peace Basket artisans partner with an expert bamboo weaver who learned from his father before him.  The bamboo weaver creates the inner frame for the basket, and then the grass weaver creates the beautiful exterior.  So this is a two-stage, two-artisan basket.

And the coloring process is amazing!  Pascasie Mukaburigo, elder and cooperative founder, taught us that the grasses are colored using a banana flower as an applicator. The flower’s blue sap bonds with the soot from the bottom of a cooking pot to color the grasses black.  The rust color comes from the dust of a local rock, applied to the grasses with the banana flower.

We love sharing this beauty with you from the heart of Rwanda.

The teardrop basket’s beautiful design is reminiscent of the layers of sloping hills that make Rwanda’s landscape so gorgeous.

Celebrate your love for people, resilience and beauty with our artisan-made home décor and gifts.  Azizi Life is committed to loving, fair trade, ethical relationships.  A portion of profit is donated to benefit our community impact projects.

The Handcrafted Details

• Crafted from valley grasses woven over a bamboo frame.
• Approximately 10 inches tall.
• Care: Dust gently with a smooth, dry cloth.
• Note: Azizi Life goods are crafted from natural and locally-available raw materials.  As such, each product is unique and may vary slightly in size or shade of color.  Woven products exposed to sun or water may fade or become more malleable with time.
• Ethically crafted by two different artisans in rural Rwanda.
• Azizi Life is a member of the Fair Trade Federation and committed to fair trade principles.
• Every product supports our community impact projects.
• Also available in Rwanda at the Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.