back to school and the office- make it stylish!
market baskets
$190.00
3 lovely, tightly woven nesting canisters for home, kitchen and pantry. Store your potatoes and onions in the pantry, set on the counter full of wooden spoons, set your plants inside...
$210.00
A beautiful, tightly woven storage basket, perfect for laundry, toys, towels. Hand woven in Ghana from our own design. Small 7"x14" , Medium 9"x16", and Large 11"x20"
$78.00
Presenting our new set of nesting canisters from Ghana! Made of tightly woven wild grasses, this lovely set of 3 features a classic natural tone accented with a beautiful deep...
$70.00
The Classic French market basket-- our signature design, now wildly popular! Our sturdy market tote is handwoven from date palm leaf, with a double-woven top edge for extra sturdy finish....
$20.00
Bokashi composting is a magical process, truly, and Kenkashi Bokashi is a step more magical! The bokashi compost system comes to us from Korea, and uses the principles of fermentation...
$95.00
Simple French Market leather trimmed backpack woven from palm leaf. Limited run on this item- get them while you can! 15"h x 20" wide at top. Sizes are approximate, and...
$65.00
A wonderful, simple market basket, handwoven from date palm. Perfect for market, laundry or beach. Sturdy and flexible, with thick leather handles, attached with extra leather tab for security. 14"...
$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,...
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...
