Wire Weave Telephone Wire Basket - Imbenge Basket

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P1,709.52

For centuries South Africa's Zulu people have been famous for the sturdy and beautiful baskets they weave from grasses and palm leaf. The weaving was so tight that the best ukhamba baskets were actually used to store beer
Today these baskets are still woven in the countryside, but the Zulus living in urban area have invented a new kind of basket, the imbenge basket woven entirely of recycled telephone wire
The baskets are as bright and colorful as the telephone wire, and very sturdy
They are also completely washable! In recent years people in craft cooperatives in the the neighboring nation of Zimbabwe have developed their own distinct style of telephone wire basket, which we are also offering here
These baskets are all one-of-a-kind, and our inventory is constantly changing

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