Tonga Basket Natural (55-01) Railway Staff This tablecloth adds extra flair

This tablecloth adds extra flair to any table setting or simply adds colour to your table and room

along with the royal milkers holding the wooden pails in front with outstretched arms

premium feel

Each begins as a woven square and is worked into an almost perfect circle — a form still used to winnow grain today

Their value lies in both the metal used and the ornamentation created on the sculpture

Tonga Basket Natural (55-01) Railway Staff This tablecloth adds extra flairA handwoven natural Tonga basket in Ilala palm These solid edged baskets are the pinnacle of the Tonga (Bathonga) basket maker's art in Zimbabwe and Southern Zambia. Woven from Ilala palm leaf, each starts as a square and is coiled into an almost perfect circle. The fine edging is known as snake's belly for its serpent scale pattern, and the soft natural tones come from dyes made with tree bark. Traditionally used to winnow grain, today they make