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Vessels Geometric – Red Snakeskin Pattern
$345.00
Code: IEWV017
3 1/2" x 5 1/2" (9 x 14 cms)
This pot-bellied basket is a beautiful marvel of weaving technique and design representing stylized snakeskin in a red format. Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution: a kaleidoscopic mandala, on the base of the piece (decorating tip: these basket vessels are best displayed on a glass shelf in order to appreciate the incredible work on the underside!). Museum quality traditional basketwork created by two related tribes of the Darien region between Panama and Colombia, the Embera and Wounaan.
These women weavers are making, arguably, the finest autochthonous baskets in the world. These impressive rainforest baskets are made by virtue of two key elements: the endemic, wild palm tree species that provide the young fronds that are split and are the basic structure of the baskets, and of course the ancestral knowledge of the Native women of the Darien region expressed in the colours obtained from their surroundings and the complex stitching techniques employed since time immemorial.
3 1/2" x 5 1/2" (9 x 14 cms)
This pot-bellied basket is a beautiful marvel of weaving technique and design representing stylized snakeskin in a red format. Like most of these indigenous Darien rainforest baskets, the underside of the piece features a beautiful design resolution: a kaleidoscopic mandala, on the base of the piece (decorating tip: these basket vessels are best displayed on a glass shelf in order to appreciate the incredible work on the underside!). Museum quality traditional basketwork created by two related tribes of the Darien region between Panama and Colombia, the Embera and Wounaan.
These women weavers are making, arguably, the finest autochthonous baskets in the world. These impressive rainforest baskets are made by virtue of two key elements: the endemic, wild palm tree species that provide the young fronds that are split and are the basic structure of the baskets, and of course the ancestral knowledge of the Native women of the Darien region expressed in the colours obtained from their surroundings and the complex stitching techniques employed since time immemorial.