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CHOOSE THE WORLD YOU WANT: FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 22ND FEB - 7TH MARCH 2021

CHOOSE THE WORLD YOU WANT: FAIRTRADE FORTNIGHT 22ND FEB - 7TH MARCH 2021

Since Fairtrade Fortnight's aim this year is to highlight the challenges climate change presents to rural farmers, we’d like to show you a short film we have made about the chairlady of one of the basket weaving groups we work closely with in Kenya: Madam Dorcas Ndinda, a farmer and greengrocer. 

 

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The Greatest Burden. The Least Reward. #SheDeserves better.

The Greatest Burden. The Least Reward. #SheDeserves better.

This year, the Fairtrade Foundation is telling the stories of female cocoa farmers through its #SheDeserves campaign. We’re delighted to see the spotlight on women for Fairtrade Fortnight since the vast majority of our incredible weavers are female farmers. Like the cocoa farmers in West Africa, our weavers are juggling the demands of family life with the ups and downs of agricultural work and drought – weaving their wonderful baskets when and where they can for a more dignified life.

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At Home With... Cara Sutherland

At Home With... Cara Sutherland

For our first At Home With feature we were delighted to chat with the very lovely Cara Sutherland, whose Instagram account @CaraSuthers and blog Within These Walls we have swooned and cackled over for several years now. She's got a dreamy Cotswold home, killer dress sense and seriously great hair, but it's her hilarious captions, honest portrayals of life's ups and downs, and abject refusal to take herself too seriously that captured our hearts and our minds. 
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A Wanderlust Wedding Shoot

A Wanderlust Wedding Shoot

We were delighted to be asked to supply a selection of our handwoven planters for a wanderlust-themed wedding shoot for luxe weddings and lifestyle blog B.Loved earlier this year. Mr...
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Trend Alert: Desert Dusk

Trend Alert: Desert Dusk

A new interiors colour palette is melting its way into our awareness as spring ebbs into summer, and it’s a revisiting of gentle, earthen tones like terracotta and taupe, gold,...
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Crossing Continents: A Journey of Two Baskets

Crossing Continents: A Journey of Two Baskets

The Basket Room Weaver in Kenya

We met Christine, a member of a weaving cooperative in rural South Eastern Kenya during our trip to Kenya, in the Summer of 2015. Amazed at her skills, we instantly fell in love with these two baskets and bought them (and many others!) from the group.

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