Small 6" Kaisa Grass Bowl

Hand-woven in Bangladesh from natural kaisa grass, this sturdy coiled basket bowl is great as a entryway or dresser catch-all for coins, keys and other odds and ends. Kaisa is a wild grass used in Bangladeshi basket-making. Naturally light green, it dries to a very pale, almost tan color.

Woven kaisa grass

6"Dx3"H inches

 Made in Bangladesh

Ten Thousand Villages | Fair Trade | Bangladesh

Handmade by artisans in Bangladesh. Prokritee (meaning "nature" in Bengali) manages several handicraft enterprises and helps other groups sell their products in local and foreign markets. Prokritee and its enterprises provide jobs for poor rural women. By providing jobs for women, Prokritee improves women’s standard of living and helps them send their children to school. The organization provides skills development training to artisans. Prokritee creates and promotes income–generating projects that benefit the artisans, adhere to good safety and environmental standards, and have the potential to become self–reliant. Prokritee was established in 2001 as an independent organization.