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#WeMadeYourBaskets: Fashion Revolution Week 2018
Spoiled for choice as we were for whom to feature in this blog post for Fashion Revolution Week (so many interesting and inspiring people to talk about), we have decided to tell you a little more about a weaver named Ntomulan Lesania, who makes some of our Nomadic Beaded Baskets from her home in rural Ngurunit, Northern Kenya.
Trend Alert: Velvet Crush
We are crushing on velvet here at The Basket Room. Big time. In fact, Holly speaks dreamily of her lust for a green velvet sofa, a hot cup of tea and a stack of style magazines to work her way through. We’ve been eyeing up plush armchairs and button-backed chesterfields, and daydreaming about peachy pink ottomans.
Fairtrade Fortnight 2018: How Does A Basket Weaving Cooperative Work?
With Fairtrade Fortnight in full swing and as consumers become ever more conscientious in their shopping habits, we thought we’d take a moment to talk about The Basket Room’s commitment to supporting Fair Trade.
It Takes a Village…
With mothering and mothers on our mind at The Basket Room this week, we’re reflecting on the ‘villages’ that raise mothers and the different places that mothers seek and find these supportive communities – both here in the UK and in Africa where hundreds of mothers flex work with childrearing to produce our beautiful hand woven baskets.
Meet Mbeti: Pressing For Progress in 2018
There has never been a more prudent time to press for progress and push for gender parity: encouraging friends, employers, family members and communities to think and behave in more gender-inclusive ways. So today, on International Women’s Day 2018, we’d like you to meet Mbeti.
Start a Lifelong Love Affair… With Yourself
New Year - New Neutrals
An evolution from the brights of new modern to the soothing salves of tea rose, lavender and grey.
For anyone with an obsession with all things house and home, the dominant palette for this year will already be lingering in your awareness in soothing swathes of tea rose, grey, peach, blush, lavender and mint.
2017: A Year in Baskets
As we get ready to close up shop for the Christmas break both here in Charlbury and in Nairobi, we can’t quite believe that another year has whistled by. To say it has been a whirlwind would be something of an understatement and it’s only now that we have really had the time to take stock of all that has happened in twelve quick months
A Cotswold and a Kenyan Christmas
So whilst Christmas in Charlbury is likely to include a few jugs of ale at The Bull Inn and some Morris Dancers, a frosty walk through Cornbury Park to spot the deer, and cosying up to watch The Snowman, a Kenyan Christmas might look a little bit like this…