【 The Basket 】
A deep basket woven in the open six-eye pattern — strips of green bamboo crossing in threes to form a field of six-sided holes, strong at every join and open to the air on every side. The bamboo is left as it came off the mountain: unboiled, unbleached. The colour is the plant itself, and it will deepen toward amber as the years pass.
【 The Craft 】
Katsuyama bamboo craft, from the mountains of northern Okayama, began around 1860 as the work of farming families. The madake bamboo is cut in autumn, split and shaved into strips entirely by hand, and the rim is bound with tsuzura, a wild vine gathered from the same hills. No wire, no plastic. It is this vine binding that the craft is known for, and the reason a basket lasts for generations.
【 How to Use It 】
Bread — loaves and rolls keep their crust instead of sweating soft; the depth holds a whole day's baking.
Fruit and vegetables — onions, potatoes, lemons, garlic on the counter; what spoils in a sealed bowl keeps far longer in open bamboo.
A catch-all — by the door, the deep kind of basket you drop things into and always find again.
【 Care 】
If you use it with water, hang it in a sunny spot in the kitchen to dry. It will darken gently with the years. You are not buying a finished object — you are agreeing to carry one forward.
【 The Basket 】
A deep basket woven in the open six-eye pattern — strips of green bamboo crossing in threes to form a field of six-sided holes, strong at every join and open to the air on every side. The bamboo is left as it came off the mountain: unboiled, unbleached. The colour is the plant itself, and it will deepen toward amber as the years pass.
【 The Craft 】
Katsuyama bamboo craft, from the mountains of northern Okayama, began around 1860 as the work of farming families. The madake bamboo is cut in autumn, split and shaved into strips entirely by hand, and the rim is bound with tsuzura, a wild vine gathered from the same hills. No wire, no plastic. It is this vine binding that the craft is known for, and the reason a basket lasts for generations.
【 How to Use It 】
Bread — loaves and rolls keep their crust instead of sweating soft; the depth holds a whole day's baking.
Fruit and vegetables — onions, potatoes, lemons, garlic on the counter; what spoils in a sealed bowl keeps far longer in open bamboo.
A catch-all — by the door, the deep kind of basket you drop things into and always find again.
【 Care 】
If you use it with water, hang it in a sunny spot in the kitchen to dry. It will darken gently with the years. You are not buying a finished object — you are agreeing to carry one forward.
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