The PET Lamp Bolgatanga is created and named after one of the most remote cities in Ghana.
Like all PET Lamp collections, a combination of local PET plastic bottles with natural fibres is used to create the PET Lamp. The chosen material for the Bolgatanga is the Elephant Grass, a fibre with a great tradition in the basketwork in northern Ghana, giving each basket a unique and dynamic shape.
Pakurigo Waves is the name of this specific technique applied by a few master weavers of The Baba Tree team, which consists of shaping the basket weaving in “waves”, providing this unique and peculiar movement.
The Baba Tree community is made up of over 250 artisans who weave with local straw and Elephant grass, the most popular basket weaving material used in northern Ghana which is imported from the wetter south of Ghana, mixing in each piece the Gurunsi weaving traditions with an up to date and more modern language thanks to the introduction of the waves characteristic of this process, which gives each basket a unique dynamism and rhythm.
Like all PET Lamp collections, a combination of local PET plastic bottles with natural fibres is used to create the PET Lamp. The chosen material for the Bolgatanga is the Elephant Grass, a fibre with a great tradition in the basketwork in northern Ghana, giving each basket a unique and dynamic shape.
Pakurigo Waves is the name of this specific technique applied by a few master weavers of The Baba Tree team, which consists of shaping the basket weaving in “waves”, providing this unique and peculiar movement.
The Baba Tree community is made up of over 250 artisans who weave with local straw and Elephant grass, the most popular basket weaving material used in northern Ghana which is imported from the wetter south of Ghana, mixing in each piece the Gurunsi weaving traditions with an up to date and more modern language thanks to the introduction of the waves characteristic of this process, which gives each basket a unique dynamism and rhythm.