MURUGU: Purple, Orange & Turquoise Woven Moses Basket

Description

Meet bold and beautiful MURUGU, the Junior Design Awards 2021 award-winning Moses basket. MURUGU boasts warm purple and orange bands against a natural grass rim, with an upper band of turquoise and black tribal patterning and black goat’s leather carry handles.The weavers who produce these Moses baskets work as part of a talented weaving co-operative in Northern Ghana. The majority of these weavers are men having been taught the age-old art of basket weaving from their own mothers and fathers. Agricultural work is the basis of most weavers’ incomes, but prolific drought makes it increasingly difficult for families to make ends meet. Basket weaving, and producing these exquisite woven Moses baskets, empowers women and men with the opportunity to earn a valuable second income.