Vogue Living Fall/Winter 2007

We were ecstatic and caught a bit off guard when we discovered our Iringa Baskets in the Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Vogue Living.

 

Yes, we had sent our last woven Iringa basket to Vogue for a photo shoot months prior to the magazine's drop, and yes, we should have known that Vogue would send a mass of potential customers to our website, but in our defense, we were still little media babies. We didn't even have the basket in stock when the first of the phone calls started rolling in, asking, "Why isn't this basket in Vogue Living shown on your website?"

 

After scrambling to make a rush order from Kenya, we managed to satiate the rampant desire for this gorgeous handmade basket, meanwhile taking our first wobbly step into the brilliant and high impact world of print media.

About the Iringa Basket:

The city of Iringa is situated about 300 miles from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Home of the Hehe people, the town was originally built as a military base by the Germans in the 1890s as they sought to oppress the Hehe, led by the brave Chief Mkwawu.

Today, Iringa is a thriving city populated by over 100,000 people. Visitors en route to nearby Ruaha National Park enjoy the city's market, where one can find these traditional Iringa baskets in use and for sale. Woven from milulu grass, a reed-like swamp grass, Iringa baskets are an indispensable utility item in East Africa and around the world.