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Stunning, extraordinary and meaningful. Just a few words that come to mind when viewing the Makenge Root Wedding Basket.
How incredible to showcase a striking decor piece in your home that has a wonderful story behind it.
If you enjoy unique one of a kind works of art, then you'll enjoy this basket!
Here's the story about the Makenge Root Wedding Basket:
These baskets are handcrafted only by the most talented women in rural Zambia using carefully harvested Makenge tree roots and natural plant dyes. In rural Zambia near Victoria Falls, a wedding basket is a woman’s most useful and valuable possession. Wedding baskets are gifted to a new bride by her mother or in-laws, where they are continuously passed down from generation to generation. In everyday life she may choose to use it practically to winnow grain and to collect and store harvested roots and rice, or to beautify her home by hanging it on a wall. The beauty and durability of Zambian wedding baskets is no accident. Meticulously harvesting the roots of the Makenge bush is truly an art form of its own, and once roots are found, they are boiled until soft and colored with natural plant dyes.
Because this is a handmade item, each will vary slightly.
Size: 16-17"D x 2"T.
Makenge roots, natural dye.
Artisanship
“In artisanship, one sees the hand of whoever made an item. And artisanship usually tells a story that is personal and moving. It’s 'art thinking’ as opposed to ‘design thinking,’ and ‘art thinking’ is about emotion and atmosphere."
- Grace Jeffers (Designer, historian)