Tonga Basket Natural (45-17) homeware Colours available: Dark Blue Or

Colours available:  Dark Blue Or Orange background with the same images of crocodiles

4 ½ stars – 2018 Vintage - 2021 Platter Guide (awarded in 2020)

9–12cm apart

each was carved freehand with its own lines and patterns — light enough to carry

Tonga Basket Natural (45-17) homeware Colours available: Dark Blue OrA handwoven natural Tonga basket in Ilala palm These solid edged baskets are the pinnacle of the Tonga (Bathonga) basket maker's art in Zimbabwe and Southern Zambia. Woven from Ilala palm leaf, each starts as a square and is coiled into an almost perfect circle. The fine edging is known as snake's belly for its serpent scale pattern, and the soft natural tones come from dyes made with tree bark. Traditionally used to winnow grain, today they make