telephone wire baskets

Craft Story

The Story Behind the Craft

The story of telephone wire baskets begins in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where Baskets is less a trade than an inheritance. Every form is shaped by hand — sabai grass, hand-plaited — with tools and rhythms that have barely changed in decades. What you hold is not a mere product but a fragment of a place and a person.

By Fatima Bibi