NYEUPE: White Beaded Doum Palm Leaf Baskets

Description

Tightly woven from the blade of doum palm leaves, these intricate yet simple baskets are produced by the Ngurunit Weavers Group. This is a collective of around 150 craftswomen – members of the Samburu and Rendille tribes – living in Northern Kenya. Farming and collecting milk are the mainstays of this Ariaal pastoralist community, and these woven baskets were originally made as vessels for collecting camel milk. Our NYEUPE baskets bring the integrity of age-old Rendille weaving to the modern home, with the addition of beautiful Samburu beading in pure, clean white.Rendille-style basket weaving fell into swift decline with the advent of plastic and metal milk collection vessels, but in more recent years these baskets have seen a surge in demand.