Woven Travels Blog
Ariaal Style: A Meeting of Two Tribes
Oh Baby! We Now Sell Moses Baskets!
We’re thrilled to announce the joyous arrival of our hand woven Moses baskets, ethically hand made in Northern Ghana. Keep a close eye on little one while they nap by bringing one of these exquisite Moses baskets home.
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Beauty, Bicycle Baskets and Ferris Bueller - Meet Xanthe B!
Londoner Xanthe Berkeley caught our eye on Instagram some time ago. She’s a filmmaker and photographer with a thing for bold colour, the great outdoors, and pedalling around London on her famous yellow bike. We fell head over heels for the beautiful way she captures everyday moments: it speaks to our own appreciation for the art of slow living. And when Xanthe (pronounced Zan-thee) started using our APANA woven bicycle basket on her travels we fell in love a little bit more. Here are some snippets from a long overdue catchup…
Summer's In The Basket Bag
*HEAT KLAXON* Summer has LANDED! Whether you're off on your holidays soon or staying on home turf and doing the festival circuit this summer (and why not when the weather’s like this?) we'd love to see where you're taking your woven basket bags.
Fashion Revolution: Who Made Your Baskets?
We’re proudly supporting Fashion Revolution next week, because we wholeheartedly believe that fashion should feel good. Did you know that today only half of the 219 biggest fashion brands in the world know which factories their products are manufactured in? Or that only 25% of these big labels know where the zippers, buttons, threads and fabrics that make their clothes came from?
The Basket Room x Living Pattern Giveaway
#INSPIRINGMUMS and the Changing Face of Motherhood
As part of our #InspiringMums campaign for Mother's Day, we chatted to creative entrepreneur Molly Mahon about motherhood and the challenges she has overcome in managing her own business, three children and her recent diagnosis of breast cancer.
Weaving for Equality: International Women’s Day 2017
It’s International Women’s Day on 8th March, and this year our rally cry is #BeBoldForChange. So earlier this week we caught up with two members of the Kenyan weaving cooperative we work with: Peninah and Florence. Here’s what these talented craftswomen have to say about being working women in 2017, and the barriers they have overcome through basket weaving and working within a cooperative.
Create a Boho-Inspired Interior with an Indoor Jungle
This year we are seeing a move towards more natural home interiors; a reconnection with nature and with slowing down. ‘Greenery’, Pantone’s Colour of the Year 2017, is making us want to ditch the minimalism trend and bring the outside in.
A Christmas Message from The Weavers
""We started as a small group but now we've grown not just in numbers, but also as individuals....To everyone that buys these baskets, we say Asante sana sana (Thank you so so much).
