Onyx with orange swirl - Fair Trade and Hand Made by Peruvian Amazon Artisan
This basket has a center woven from bright orange and cream fibers that come from the Chambira palm trees in Peru. The bold black fibers provide a perfect accent to the decorative beads which are actually seeds from acai trees that are painted.
This basket would make a stunning wall hanging, either alone or with a grouping of other baskets. It could also be used as a beautiful holder for keys, coins, jewelry etc. Purchase this basket for yourself or as a unique and thoughtful gift.
- Your purchase helps provide fair wages to artisans from the Peruvian Amazon
- Fibers are colored with a variety of dyes, including natural plant dyes
- The sale of this basket supports forest conservation
All baskets come with a tag with the name of the artisan who wove it. These baskets were handmade by different artisans so the exact design may vary from the photo shown for this model.
Model: WB189
Support native artisans & rainforest in the Amazon
Amazon forest loss is driving species to extinction, aggravating global warming, and robbing people of unique medicines, foods and other benefits. Cutting and burning forests is often more profitable than conserving them, so some native communities in northern Peru have illegally logged and grown coca and other cash-crops to escape poverty.
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