We ask where you keep them before we ask anything else.

Why we exist

Baskets are bought on how they look in March and judged on whether they come back out of a cupboard the following March.

The two things that decide that — the rim and where they are stored — are never on a quote.

The rim is the whole basket

It holds every upright in place. Once a single stake end works loose, the weave has nothing keeping it in position and unravels outward from that point.

So ours is bound over a core and every stake end is tucked underneath and glued, rather than trimmed flush and left to lift.

Storage is the real enemy

Natural willow and seagrass go brittle in dry heat and mouldy in damp. Fabric minds neither.

So the first question is where the baskets live between Easters, and the answer changes what we recommend.

Nesting is not a detail

A slight taper and a rim profile that clears the one below turns a heap into a column.

Two hundred nested baskets take roughly the space thirty loose ones do, which for anybody with a cupboard rather than a warehouse is the entire decision.

Hunts are sized by weight, not volume

A basket that is comfortable empty can be genuinely too heavy for a small child once it is full.

So we size by carried weight, and for young groups that means more small baskets rather than fewer large ones. We will say so even when it is the cheaper answer.

You cannot wash a woven basket

Soaking natural fibre swells it, loosens the weave and invites mould. Nobody should tell you otherwise.

A removable liner costs a fraction of the basket, goes in a machine, and carries far more artwork than a weave ever will.

What we will talk you out of

The big baskets for a nursery group. Natural weave for a damp garage. Ribbon ties on anything going to small children. Ordering in March.

And filling them — we make the empty basket and the liner, and we supply no confectionery or contents of any kind.

How we work

Who we serve