Artisan Hand weaving
THE RFB JOURNAL

Field Notes

On craft, provenance, and living with handwoven art.

Every piece in the shop is the result of months of skilled work in a specific place — by a named artisan, using techniques passed across generations. This journal is where that context lives. Notes from visits to artisan communities, practical guidance on displaying and caring for handwoven art, and the occasional deep dive on what makes one tradition different from another. Read slowly. These objects were made that way.

Journal

Should You Hang a Handwoven Basket? Where Fine Coil Work Actually Belongs
Fine Wounaan and werregue baskets are made to sit, not hang. Which pieces go on a table, shelf or floor, which few belong on a wall, and how to light them.
Why Interior Designers Are Turning to Handwoven Art in a Mass-Produced World
Why interior designers specify one-of-a-kind handwoven baskets: irregularity, documented makers, named materials, and what a machine cannot copy.
The Women Behind Gahaya Links: 5 Master Weavers Who Rebuilt Rwanda's Basketry
Joy Ndungutse and Janet Nkubana founded Gahaya Links after Rwanda's 1994 Genocide. Today 5,000+ women weave across 52 cooperatives. Meet the master weavers.
Why Indigenous Baskets Look Modernist
A field-notes essay on why Indigenous baskets predate, and quietly influenced, the geometric vocabulary the Bauhaus made famous.