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Handcrafted Natural Fiber (Sabai craft) Towel Basket

Sirohi provides income opportunities to women without a formal education who are from marginalised populations in Western India, by understanding and leveraging their existing craft skills, to make sustainable 'marketable' products for a global buyer, that are made from waste & salvaged materials locally generated in their region.Their products are woven using ropes, that are twined from waste including textile and multi layer plastic and natural materials like jute and banana fibre that are locally found in the region; contributing to a circular economy.

Excess discarded cloth waste ropes are made using the mechanism of Gandhi's spinning wheel, where sirohi has 'invented' a simple indigenous machinery at village level operated by their women to twine long shreds of cloth strips into usable bright ropes. 

About the Product

Craftspeople engaged: 8

Origin Village: Midnapore and Balasore, Odisha, India

Widely available grass is braided into ropes to weave bags and baskets. This grass is a perennial grass which grows in West Bengal & Orissa Mayurbhanj area primarily. Sabaii Grass locally called Babuii grass is a very sturdy material and used to be used by the British Army in India for pulling their artillery, such is its strength. Non Plastic basket for storing your towels helps your family & the environment both. Colorful and practical and can be used to store and variety of things in an organic manner. Use it To store your personal care toiletries towels in your bathroom, home cleaning products in your laundry room or in the kitchen to store your jams and pickles.

Dimensions (L x B x H): Towel Basket: 12” x 9.5” x 4.5”

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    Simply Beautiful !!

    I am a nature lover. This piece adds Charm to my bathroom and leaves me happy with a feeling of helping the artisans of India.