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Teardrop Basket

$49.00

The Teardrop Basket is handcrafted by artisans of the Peace Baskets Cooperative using the same age-old techniques found in Rwanda’s national museum. Lightweight and delicately woven, this basket makes a beautiful display piece, or can be used to store various treasures!

Bring ethical, fair trade beauty and traditional craftsmanship into your home décor.

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SKU: N/A Categories: Baskets + Trays, Traditional Baskets Tags: bamboo, grass, traditional, woven
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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.

 

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Weight 5.6 oz
Dimensions 11.5 in

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Across the hills of Rwanda, groups of rural artisans are working to bring hope to their families through skillfully handcrafted goods. Azizi Life partners with over 60 independent groups- a total of over 760 artisan partners. Rising from the horrors of genocide, artisans from all backgrounds have joined together once again through their craft. Each artisan cooperative specializes in hand crafting products using specific techniques and raw materials. Azizi Life is honored to partner with these women and men, collaborating to connect makers, designers, and customers around the world.



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We love serving your vision for beauty and meaning in the gifts you give, what you wear, and how you decorate. Azizi Life serves as a bridge, partnering with artisans and designers to offer high quality, ethically-sourced goods for life and gifting. Products are crafted by hand using local, natural, and renewable materials. Our modern and traditional collections include baskets, woven bowls, home décor, tabletop, woven jewelry, and bags. Azizi Life offers products to US customers from our warehouse in Exton, Pennsylvania, as well as FOB sales directly from Rwanda.



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Azizi Life is a fair trade organization which partners with Rwandan artisans to bring beautifully designed, hand crafted goods to the world. As a not-for-profit organization, Azizi Life is dedicated to the wellbeing of our artisan partners and their families. In addition to opening economic opportunity through fair trade, Azizi Life invests in a range of community impact projects. Our Rwandan-led team facilitates adult literacy classes and offers other practical resources for personal, spiritual, and economic growth.

 



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