We at Medina are excited to partner with Kenkashi Microbes, working from the ground up to nourish our world
Kenkashi
Nesting sets for home and garden
Sets for Home
$160.00
Set of 2 large storage baskets, perfect for a wastepaper basket, or as a cute cover-up for your potted plants! These 2 baskets nest within each other, for easy shipping...
$85.00
Our wonderful over sized backpack, with leather straps and metal buckles, will go everywhere with you! Stylish on bike rides, jaunty at the market, and efficient at the beach! Hand...
$195.00
Lovely set of three storage baskets, hand woven from water reed and trimmed with leather. Small, 5x15x10. Medium 7x17x12. Large 9x19x14
$70.00
Lovely leather trimmed baskets, with an open palm weave. Small 7x14, Medium 8x15, Large 10x16 or Extra Large 13x18
$195.00
Extra large round black Tanzanian storage baskets, sturdy and stylish. Great for storage around the house, for potatoes in the pantry or blankets in the bedroom!
$144.00
This is one classy basket! Tightly woven, with long leather handles. Great in all rooms of the house- towels, pantry, or in the living room holding blankets; for kindling; or...
$65.00
These are the ultimate traditional market basket-- hand woven sisal handles are the easiest for the craftspeople to make, and are used all around the house in Morocco. Palm woven,...
$70.00
A sophisticated market basket, smaller and more of purse size, it is finished with lovely leather trim and long leather handles. 10hx17 at top
$70.00
How cool is this basket? Giant round palm woven basket, with long straps-- I used mine for the gym the other day, then swapped out for a shopping trip, and...
$55.00
Sweet little market-style purse! Top buckle adds to the charm and style of this hand woven palm basket. 7 high x 12 across the top.
Medina Mercantile offers high quality, well designed goods for your home and lifestyle. We are committed to working with artisans around the world, and in the United States, to support artists and crafts people directly. We look for products that are beautiful, primarily, and beautifully made, but we don't buy anything that is not made with the highest integrity-- our overseas suppliers work with women's collectives in Bangladesh, farmer artisan weavers in Morocco, and local artists close to our home in the Blue Ridge of Virginia.
Today I registered my son for soccer, followed up with customers, planned for our Fall season, lined up a lawn mowing job for my son, the budding entrepreneur, and considered what to do with my daughter when we go to NY Now in August. There is no division, here, between our working and our personal lives, and that is true for all of us, in any field. We have a lot of young families in our area, a lot of new babies born every year, and I, of course, give baskets to the new moms. Not because I have so many lying around, but because they are so genuinely useful! I always give our double handled French Market Basket,...
Mint Tea is vital to the social life of Morocco- a quick visit leads to trays of mint gunpowder tea heaped with sugar. Mint leaves are carted around Marrakesh precariously heaped being donkeys. Traditionally, tea glasses are made in Fez from recycled coke bottles, the regional style of glass. INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon loose Chinese gunpowder green tea5 cups boiling water3 to 4 tablespoons sugar, or to taste1 large bunch fresh mint (1 ounce)Special equipment : a 1- to 1 1/2-quart teapot PREPARATION Put tea in teapot and pour in 1 cup boiling water, then swirl gently to warm pot and rinse tea. Strain out and discard water, reserving tea leaves in pot.Add remaining 4 cups boiling water to tea and...
