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Shopping Tote Bag from Recycled Billboard Signs-Extra Lg-Fair Trade-India
Shopping Tote Bag from Recycled Billboard Signs-Extra Lg-Fair Trade-India
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Carry these colorful totes to your weekly farmer's market or your grocery store. These enviable totes are made from discarded/ rejected billboards and are lined with 100% cotton fabric for durability. Make a statement with this eco-chic shopping bag and support the environment!
These unique bags are handmade by women artisans trained at SPEED Trust, Chennai, India. SPEED Trust works with women from the urban slums of the city. These women work from the organization's production center. Apart from the products being sold through the SPEED Trust shop, these fair trade bags are exported to several countries.
- Measure 18-1/2β high x 14β wide x 9β deep
- One inside velcro pocket
- 10-1/2β drop
- No one bag is alike, please mention if you have specific color requirements and we will try to accommodate your request.
Handmade in India and fair trade imported.
Click on About the Artisans to learn more about this Non-Profit Organization and the female artisans who create these eco-friendly products.Β
About the Artisans
About the Artisans
Working with more than 100 individual carvers in Machakos, Kenya, Jedando Modern Handicrafts markets African handicrafts primarily made of wood and bone worldwide. Carving is a tradition in Kenya with the children learning the craft from their parents. Carved by hand using only rudimentary hand tools, olive wood bowls, salad serving sets, and animal-shaped napkin rings take shape from pieces of olive wood, mahogany, and mpingo, or "African Ebony."An integral part of the organization's function is to educate the craftspeople on the need for reforestation to enable the products to be available for years to come and offer a sustainable income for generations. While wood carving provides the major income for many in the Machakos area, other craftspeople earn a living by further enhancing the products including painting the napkin rings and carving discarded animal bone for the handles of salad serving sets. Often the bone is "batiked" by placing wax on the white bone and dipping the bone a dark brown/black dye, resulting in patterns African mud cloth designs.
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