Description
Dom Wickers Linen Basket
This Makra Dom Wickers Basket is a multi purpose piece.
As it may be used as an authentic linen basket for your laundry, as a storage unit in your space; or even as a mere organic statement piece in your space to add an authentic edge thereto.
Each piece of the Makra Dom Wickers collection, namely the Dom Wickers Linen Basket, is carefully designed to optimally serve its function; all while being an aesthetically pleasing statement piece in your home.
Apart from the design thereof, the Dom Wickers Linen Basket is made of 100% natural materials of the finest quality in Egypt, and is available in different variations, with genuine leather decorations, or in a vegan version decorated with cotton or with the dom wickers themselves.
Each Dom Wickers Linen Basket is handmade by one of the most skillful female artisans in Egypt, and each purchase contributes in supporting these women in leading a better life.
This combo of fine design, quality material and mastery of the craft comes together at Makra to ultimately provide you with unique experience with wickers pieces that serve as a quality statement in your home. An experience that is quite difficult to match elsewhere.
Check out the whole Makra Wickers Collection here.
The story of wickers work
Wicker has been documented as far back as ancient Egypt, made from indigenous “reed and swamp grasses.”
Middle-class families could only afford a few pieces, such as small tables. However, archaeologists working on the tombs of the wealthy pharaohs have uncovered a wider variety of wicker items, including “chests, baskets, wig boxes, and chairs”.
Wicker even found use in the Achaemenid Empire on the battlefield, in shields.
The popularity of wicker passed from ancient Egypt and Persia to ancient Rome. Wicker baskets were used to carry items in Pompeii.
Furniture was manufactured out of wicker in the Roman style. It has been proposed that the extensive use of wicker in the Iron Age (1200 BC, 400 AD in Europe) may have influenced the development of the woven patterns used in Celtic art.
Today, and thousands of years later, the craft of wickers work survives in different areas in Egypt which have well preserved their heritage and most of the ancient crafts.
Shalateen is no exception to these beautiful authentic cities in Egypt. A mesmerizing village in the South of Egypt, it is in Shalateen that we were able to bring together a team of bright skillful female artisans to bring our wickers collection to life, and create the product you see before your eyes, and which our customers enjoy every day in their homes around the world.
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