Woven Travels Blog
Meet the Leatherworkers Who Have Upskilled in Basket Embroidery
How to Nail The Basket Wall Trend
With more than 41,000 posts under the hashtag #basketwall on Instagram, wall baskets, decorative wall fans and fringed woven wall hangings bring natural texture to any space. Colourful fans and baskets hung on walls can cleverly link colour schemes and create a sense of harmony and flow between rooms. We spoke to Interior Stylist Dee Campling who offers her wisdom on the value and beauty of handwoven basketry and wall hangings in the home.
SIX *VERY* VERSATILE HANDWOVEN LAUNDRY BASKETS
LAUNDRY. Love it or loathe it, it’s an inescapable fact of life and something that has to be done – week in and week out. Whether your home is a shrine to neat piles and domestic order or if you struggle to ever get on top of the mountains of dirty clothes your household produces, an excellent laundry basket or two will lighten the load in more ways than one.
21 Beautiful Storage Baskets For Decluttering Your Home
As we count down the final few weeks before we can socialise and MAKE PLANS again, spring cleaning and decluttering are high on the agenda for many of us. Good home storage has, for many, been a sanity saver over this past year – and for every storage conundrum, we have a woven basket.
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.
STEP INTO MY OFFICE...
With the beginning of a hopeful new year and home working likely to be a long-term cultural shift all over the world, it feels like a good time to get more intentional and creative with our home work spaces. With most of our team now largely working from home both in the UK and in Kenya, we’re having discussions about what rituals, adaptations or small purchases are helping us work better and work happier.
FESTIVE NESTING
Please Vote for The Basket Room!
We were totally bowled over recently to learn that we have been nominated for the Passion & Purpose Award in The Independent Awards 2020, hosted by Holly & Co and Not On The High Street founder and UK Ambassador to Creative Small Businesses, Holly Tucker MBE.
The Independent Awards 2020 have been created to showcase and recognise the very best creative small businesses across the UK. The Basket Room is in very esteemed company and will be competing with 19 other INCREDIBLE independent businesses for the cash prize of £10,000. Voting closes on 3rd December when finalists will be selected from each category via a combination of the public vote and expert judges. Our category is being judged by Sir Tim Smit KBE, founder of The Eden Project, and Edward Perry, co-founder of COOK.
Weave Some JOY This Christmas
NEVER have we been quite so excited to launch Christmas as we have been this year! With doubts around the ways we’ll be able to celebrate this year it’s natural that so many of us are keen to put more time and thought into the way we gift. If we can’t be together, we want the Christmas presents we give to convey some of those big feelings that we can’t express in person: warmth, gratitude, admiration and LOVE.
SIX YEARS ON… AND STILL DREAMING OF BASKETS!
… And just like that, another year has passed by and we celebrated our sixth birthday last week. It’s been another big year for The Basket Room and it’s about to get bigger as Holly goes on maternity leave next week and prepares for the arrival of her first child.
Read on to find out about some very exciting upcoming basket collaborations, and to meet some of the new members of the team both here in the UK and over in Kenya.
COSY TIME
Winter hibernation takes on a new kind of meaning this year, so as we start to naturally spend more time indoors as the seasons change, we’re also looking for ways to make the home a comforting as well as a comfortable space.
BLOCK PARTY!
It’s a trend that’s been seen on the catwalks for some time already, but this big and bold approach to colour pairings is also making waves in the world of interiors. Colour blocking is a wonderfully simple way to freshen up your living space, and often it won’t require any new purchases as it’s more about placements and combinations of colour.