Nirai Basket – Medium

The Nirai

Three sections, each holding equal ground. Cream white at the top, clean and open. A middle section where cream and black are woven together — not blended, not printed, but interlocked at the fiber level until the two colors create something between them that is neither. A grey that earned itself. Then red at the base, warm and final.

The middle section is what makes this bag worth looking at twice. Most multicolor bags stack solid blocks of color and call it done. The Nirai weaves two colors into each other in the middle section until the surface has a texture that changes depending on the light — darker from one angle, more cream from another. It is the most technically demanding section of the bag and it sits quietly between two colors that don't require that kind of effort.

Dark brown leather straps. The warmth of them pulls the red at the base upward without announcing it.

10" x 10". Square and structured. The bag that carries a full market run without losing its shape.

Wipe clean with a damp cloth. Keep from prolonged moisture, store somewhere dry. Each bag is unique — the interwoven cream and black middle section will form its own pattern in every piece, because those intersections are decided by hand.

10" x 10" — Sisal and Nubuck leather — Handmade in Machakos, Kenya.